1BJW
Moving freely between abstraction and representation, Welling insists in all his work on the essential material fact of his medium: the trace of light on the surface
of a sheet of paper. For his series Dégradés, the artist abandoned the camera altogether, using the enlarger as a source of illumination through which he made a number of exposures using blue and gray filters.
of a sheet of paper. For his series Dégradés, the artist abandoned the camera altogether, using the enlarger as a source of illumination through which he made a number of exposures using blue and gray filters.
Artwork Details
- Title: 1BJW
- Artist: James Welling (American, born 1951)
- Date: 1991
- Medium: Chromogenic print
- Dimensions: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1992
- Object Number: 1992.5113
- Rights and Reproduction: © James Welling
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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