2002 Last Trip to Venice; Shinjuku Nikon Salon, Tokyo/
Osaka Nikon Salon, Osaka, Japan
2003 Seiichi Furuya; Scalo Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
Seiichi Furuya;Wekstadt Graz, Graz, Austria
Group Exhibitions
1979 5 Jahre Fotogalerie im Forum Stadtpark; Graz, Austria
1980 Europa ̈ische Fotografen, Teil I: Steiermark; steirischer
herbst ’80, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
1981 Erweiterte Fotografie/Extended Photography; Wiener
Secession, Vienna, Austria
Neue Fotografie aus O ̈sterreich; Forum Stadtpark,
Graz, Austria and traveling
1982 Lichtbildnisse; Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn,
Germany
1983 Portraits; Fotogaleria Forum, Tarragona, Spain
Geschichte der Fotografie in O ̈sterreich; Museum des
- Jahrhunderts, Vienna, Austria
1988 Die Rache der Erinnerung/The Revenge of Recollection;
steirischer herbst ’88, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
Stadtpark eins; Villette in Cham, Zug, Switzerland
1990 Zeichen im Fluss; Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts,
Vienna, Austria
1992 Zeitgeno ̈ssische Photographie aus der Sammlung des
Museums moderner Kunst in Wien; National Gallery of
Slovakia, Bratislava, Slovakia
1993 Border/Borderless; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of
Photography, Tokyo, Japan
1994 Zu Hause in Berlin-Ost; Galeria Mesta Bratislavy,
Bratislava, Slovakia
Vertreiben–Flu ̈chten; Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rot-
terdam, Netherlands
1995 Antagonismes; Muse ́e de l’Elyse ́e, Lausanne, Switzer-
landAntagonismes; Centre national de la photographie,
Paris, FranceNew Japanese Photography; Civic Art Gal-
lery, Yokohama, Japan
1997 The Artist & An Urban Environment; Art Gallery
Slovenj Gradec, Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia
1998 Love’s Body; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photo-
graphy, Tokyo, Japan and traveling
2000 The Model Wife; Museum of Photographic Arts, San
Diego, California and traveling
2001 Open Ends; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New
York
Selected Works
Izu (Japan), 1978
Portrait of Christine, Graz and Vienna, (series) 1978–1984
Me ́moires, 1989
Further Reading
Honnef, Klaus.AMS. Graz: Edition Camera Austria, 1981.
Faber, Monika, Werner Fenz, Christine Frisinghelli, and
Wilfried Skreiner.Me ́moires. Graz: Edition Camera
Austria/Neue Galeria am Landesmuseum Joanneum,
1989.
Stahel, Urs, and Toshiharu Ito.Seiichi Furuya, Me ́moires
1995. Zurich: Scalo, 1995.
Furuya, Seiichi.Christine Furuya-Go ̈ssler: Me ́moires, 1978–
1985. Kyoto: Korinsha Press, 1997.
Faber, Monika.Portrait. Salzburg: Edition Fotohof, 2000.
Faber, Monika.alive: Seiichi Furuya. Vienna: Scalo, 2004.
ADAM FUSS
British
In a time when sophisticated single-lens-reflex (SLR)
cameras are being increasingly challenged by rapid
advances in the resolution and color quality of digi-
tal cameras, Adam Fuss stands apart in his commit-
ment to photographic images made without the use
of a camera. Mechanically if not conceptually align-
ing himself with the earliest photographers William
Henry Fox Talbot, Louis Jacques Mande ́Daguerre,
andJosephNice ́phore Nie ́pce, Fuss works almost
exclusively with paper exposed directly to light. His
images are made with pinhole cameras, large-format
photograms, and silver-plated daguerreotypes. But
unlike his nineteenth-century predecessors, Fuss is
less interested in the objective nature of such direct
representations—the sheer fact of being able to cap-
ture the effect of light bouncing off objects in the
world onto a sensitized medium—than he is in the
metaphorical qualities that arise from direct expo-
sures. Metaphorical associations abound quite natu-
rally from the timeless, fundamental simplicity of his
chosen subject matter: flora and fauna of the natural
world as exemplified by sunflowers, swans, snakes,
and eviscerated rabbits, and elemental icons of pure
energy such as water, smoke, skulls, and newborn
babies. While today we take the photomechanical
nature of photography for granted, Fuss’s anachro-
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