Amanda Means is celebrated for her black-and-white gelatin silver prints of palpable materiality. Means’s virtuoso light projections without a camera—made by physically shining light on the development paper—give rise to her evocative, masterly printing technique. The result is a luminous display of everyday objects, such as lightbulbs and water glasses, in an unexpected serial close-up. A 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, awarded for her contribution to contemporary photography, Means is in numerous museum collections, including the Whitney Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. After living in New York City for 35 years, she moved to Beacon (NY) in 2007.