Exbrook Arms
With this photograph, taken shortly after his graduation from art school, Welling began an investigation of artificial illumination that continues to preoccupy him twenty-five years later. Glowing with a spooky, dreamlike light, the entryway to this "Old English" club in Southern California exemplifies a typically American melding of old and new, authentic and ersatz, at the same time as it is an exquisite meditation on the expressive properties of light.
Artwork Details
- Title: Exbrook Arms
- Artist: James Welling (American, born 1951)
- Date: 1977
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: 12.5 x 9.1 cm (4 15/16 x 3 9/16 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, Charina Foundation Inc. Gift, 1999
- Object Number: 1999.10
- Rights and Reproduction: © James Welling
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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