Robert Cumming

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How Robert Cumming Pushed the Boundaries of Photography and Narrative

A touchstone for contemporary artists, Cumming was fascinated by illusion and trickery, inviting viewers to look in—and look again.

Robert Cumming Invents the Photograph

Constructing sets that look functional but are intentionally useless, an artist parodies the seamless illusion of images.

Robert Cumming in Conversation with Sarah Bay Williams (Video)

Robert Cumming speaks with Sarah Bay Williams on the subject of humor, absurdity, and perpetual play in his 1970’s photography.

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Aperture No. 261

Aperture’s issue on craft features photographers who make pictures the slow way—building camera obscuras, creating photograms, and laboring in traditional darkrooms to make handmade, unrepeatable forms.

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