Albert Moser (1928-2022, USA)
Sans titre (1976 – 2010)

From the early 1970s onward, for over 25 years, Moser produced panoramic composite photographs by taking up to thirty images of a single view and assembling them with scotch or masking tape. On the back, he noted detailed information about the scene and his camera. Beyond their poetic boldness and material uniqueness, these works reveal a clear intent to distort and reinvent reality. By cutting and rejoining photographs, Moser created vertiginous landscapes that collapse in on themselves, challenging the expansive logic of the wide-angle lens and drawing the viewer into a disorienting, almost sculptural experience of space.

Albert Moser was born on December 29, 1928 in Trenton, New Jersey. After finishing the 9th grade, he joined the Army and was sent to Japan for eighteen months as part of America’s occupying force after World War II. In March of 1948, he traveled back to the United States and worked a number of odd jobs. He washed airplanes at McGuire Air Force Base and was briefly employed at the candy counter of a large department store in Trenton. The majority of his working career was spent in the mailroom of a state agency in New Jersey, delivering letters to employee’s desks, a position he held for over thirty years.

Moser lived with his parents well into his fifth decade of life, and according to family members, always made things. The artist passed away in 2022.

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