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"Los Angeles-based artist James WELLING has long used abstraction to challenge the technical and conceptual boundaries of photography.
In the 1980s, WELLING often employed simple materials like crumpled aluminum foil, draped fabric and pastry dough.
While many of the objects depicted in 'Light Sources' literally transmit light, the series also refers to the role of light in the photographic process and, indirectly, to how the human eye perceives light." (publisher' note, © Steidl, 2010)
"Like much of Welling’s work 'Light Sources' taps into memories and emotions in the viewer, about darkness, strange places, and the wonder of that which attracts us for reasons unknown. It is a trope for the seductions of the quickly glimpsed, the half remembered, the partially understood, qualities that Welling wants to hold up, examine, and admire without piercing the fragile surface of their own fugitive grace.” (© Carol SQIERS, in: Artforum, 1998).
About the photographer ,James WELLING (b.1951 in Hartford, Connecticut):James WELLING is Professor of Art at UCLA, he is represented by David ZWIRNER in New York and Regen Projects in Los Angeles.
In the 1980s, WELLING often employed simple materials like crumpled aluminum foil, draped fabric and pastry dough.
While many of the objects depicted in 'Light Sources' literally transmit light, the series also refers to the role of light in the photographic process and, indirectly, to how the human eye perceives light." (publisher' note, © Steidl, 2010)
"Like much of Welling’s work 'Light Sources' taps into memories and emotions in the viewer, about darkness, strange places, and the wonder of that which attracts us for reasons unknown. It is a trope for the seductions of the quickly glimpsed, the half remembered, the partially understood, qualities that Welling wants to hold up, examine, and admire without piercing the fragile surface of their own fugitive grace.” (© Carol SQIERS, in: Artforum, 1998).
About the photographer ,James WELLING (b.1951 in Hartford, Connecticut):James WELLING is Professor of Art at UCLA, he is represented by David ZWIRNER in New York and Regen Projects in Los Angeles.
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- Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25,5 x 28,5 x 2 cm., 128 pp., 68 b/w ills., text language: English