In these twenty 11 x 13 7/8 inch photographs of Joseph Cornell from the last three years of his life, his home features prominently. Clapboard siding appears in 15 works, and the faux Dutch architecture of Flushing is at odds with Cornell's originality. There are no pictures of Cornell's work, which stands outside any New York school tradition. These photos aspire to be art themselves, diagonal compositions, extreme foreground, ploys reminiscent of Bellmer's self portraits, reflections in the home's windows. In eight of the works the master is seated or asleep, reminding us he's at the end of his life.
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