This survey of American photographer James Welling's images from the past 25 years offers the opportunity for an in-depth study of the complex and mutable priorities upon which this work builds its strength. The different series of works complement and contrast one another as a network of associations, rather than a linear chronology. For example, we see the on-going tension between the representational power of photography and its pictorial purity (or abstraction) when moving from the images of railroads to his pictures of ...
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This survey of American photographer James Welling's images from the past 25 years offers the opportunity for an in-depth study of the complex and mutable priorities upon which this work builds its strength. The different series of works complement and contrast one another as a network of associations, rather than a linear chronology. For example, we see the on-going tension between the representational power of photography and its pictorial purity (or abstraction) when moving from the images of railroads to his pictures of crumpled fabric and foil imaginary landscapes. And most recently, the "Light Sources" pictures embrace a wide range of associations from the world observed or natural -- the sun shining through a thicket of trees -- to the world engineered or mediated -- a mosaic of ceiling lights. Essays by Michael Fried and Sarah Rogers focus on individual images from different series as well as varied preoccupations from the past three decades.
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Publisher:
Musée Départmental d'Art Contemporain de Rochechouart and Musée de la...
Published:
1992
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
11305294852
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Near Fine. No dust jacket as issued. First edition, first printing. Soft cover. Printed French-fold wrappers; no dust jacket as issued. Photographs by James Welling. Text in French and English. Essay by Jean-Marc Prévost. Interview with the artist by Laura Trippi. Includes an exhibition history and a selected bibliography. 68 pp., with 10 four-color and 10 black-and-white plates, plus additional illustrations. 11 x 8-1/4 inches. Published on the occasion of exhibitions at Musée Départmental d'Art Contemporain de Rochechouart and Musée de la Roche-sur-Yon. Near Fine (light sunning to spine and a stray surface mark on front cover, else Fine).
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Fine in very good dust jacket. (WELLING, JAMES). Welling, James & Ute Grosenick. JAMES WELLING: WOLFSBURG. Wolfsburg & Ostfildern, GERMANY: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg & Cantz Verlag, 1994. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Wrappers in Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine. /Very Good. np (88pp), 38 duotone illustrations. Text in English and German. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with a 1994 Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg-commissioned exhibition of James Welling's photographs of the architecture of Wolfsburg, and its most prominent buildings-the Volkswagenwerk factory. A most handsome copy of this uncommon item showing just a bit of creasing to the extremities of the dust jacket. 3-89322-655-9 Inventory Number: 022220.
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VG-. May have soiling on back cover and shelf wear. Contents clean and tight. White and color pictorial stapled wraps. [6] pp. 8 color illustrations. Catalogue of an exhibition held March 24-July 22, 2014. Contains an interview with the artist.
