Robert Cumming: Watermelon and Chair, W. Suffield, Connecticut, 1982

Aperture is pleased to present this special limited-edition photograph by the artist Robert Cumming, in conjunction with his publication The Difficulties of Nonsense (2016). In Aperture magazine Issue #211: “Curiosity”, Sarah Bay Gachot writes that Cumming’s interest in photography spawned from his interest in perception: “Cumming wanted the viewer to get to know, personally, the process of perception—perhaps to ward off the onset of visual inertia. The pictures unfold slowly over time; the more you look, the more you see.”

Playing with props, proportions, unusual angles, light, and mirrors, his images invite viewers to look in—and then to second-guess what they see. Aperture is excited to publish the first survey of this significant body of work as a touchstone for contemporary artists and those interested in artwork that came out of Los Angeles in the 1970s.

Each limited-edition print is hand-packed with great care and ships from New York within 3–5 days.