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Steven Pippin
Shortlisted: 1999
Steven Pippin's work between 1982 and 1991 consisted of photos taken, not with conventional cameras, but with 'pin-hole' cameras made by converting bits of furniture and
other objects, even whole rooms. He has, for example, turned an ordinary bath tub into a camera with which he photographed his own naked body.
Since 1991 he has also made sculptural machines, which have interconnected moving parts that spin, flip or rotate, like a gyroscope, around a stable central point, which houses
an image or object.
Laundromat-Locomotion (Horse & Rider) 1997
Twelve black and white photographs,
76.2 x 76.2 cm
© GBE (Modern) New York Photo: GBE (Modern) New York
Steven Pippin was born in Redhill, England in 1960.
Between 1982 and 1987 he trained at Brighton Polytechnic and Chelsea School of Art.
He was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1999, for his exhibition Laundromat-Locomotion in which he transformed twelve laundry machines into cameras to explore the
relationship between vision and motion through photography.
This information has been taken from The Turner Prize: Twenty Years,
by Virginia Button, Tate Publishing, 2003.
 View Steven Pippin in the Tate Collection
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