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The Middle of the Day, 1994–2004

John Miller’s (1954, Cleveland) exhibition was organized by the Print Room of Geneva’s Musée d’Art et d’Histoire and occupied two rooms on the first floor. It featured approximately 100 photographs, all taken between noon and 2 p.m. In late 1994, Miller began photographing the “middle of the day,” the time when everyone interrupts their activities to take a break, the period when every amateur photographer knows that the light is least favorable for taking pictures. The images in the series compose a collection of everyday scenes that play an almost allegorical role in postmodern society. Like the “middle of the day,” society is striving to gain an identity. The snapshots of daily life embody a sort of emptiness in the subject, a non-definition, waiting for meaning. Arranging them in 
a series forces us to consider the things we normally barely notice—the varicose veins on a woman hurrying by, an abandoned playground, the vacant look of a woman smoking. Once we notice these details, we are reminded that “daily life is largely unknown and mostly unfamiliar.

  • Exhibition organized by Print Room of the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire in Geneva
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