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

In Aperture magazine Issue #211: “Curiosity”, Sarah Bay Gachot writes that Robert 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. The Difficulties of Nonsense (2016) is the first survey of this significant body of work and a touchstone for contemporary artists and those interested in the art that came out of Los Angeles in the 1970s.

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