How To Turn Out To Be A Photographer

Tema Stauffer’s photographs discover how the experience of going someplace is shaped by your expectations of what you can see. Rijksmuseum’s composite now reveals the cracked texture of the paint, brushstrokes, and slight pigment variations that wouldn’t be visible even when you were standing in front of the work itself. Zoom in on hard-to-see spots like the blurred fur of a reactive dog, the gleaming light that bounces off guns and the figures’ ornamental clothing, and the gray-blue tones underlying the captain’s facial options. The magnifiable image additionally retains evidence of the damage carried out by a knife gash in 1975. Each work is a product of collaboration with Meyer’s husband Colin, who shoots the entire ultimate images.