Famous+Photographer

=Adam Fuss= History - Adam Fuss was born in England in 1961. He lived for a majority of his live in Australia with his mother. In 1980, Adam returned to Australia and began his career as a photographic apprentice at the Ogilvy & Mather Agency. Two years later he moved to New York and further continued to pursue his dream. Adam began a series of pinhole-camera images in 1984 and began exhibiting his work in 1985 at Massimo Audiello’s gallery. Adam Fuss is known for photographing unusual subject matter with an emphasis on composition.

Inspiration - Adam Fuss keeps a crate of live snakes in his New York studio. Since the mid 1990s they have variously inspired and taken part in the creation of several dozen of his artworks

Style and Genre - Adam uses processes that were in use at the very beginning of photography’s history, such as daguerreotypes and photograms, he burrows forcefully into the ancient myths and inherited ideas snakes inhabit, plumping his concept until it positively glows with allusions.