"Choreograph extends James Welling's iconic experiments with photography and color into the realm of dance, landscape, and architecture, yielding visually electrifying imagery. To create Choreograph, Welling photographed dancers performing in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Los Angeles, ultimately combining these images with landscapes and architecture. In a multichannel hack, Welling attains "pathological color"- the purposeful misuse of imaging technologies as a way to short-circuit conventions of photographic ...
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"Choreograph extends James Welling's iconic experiments with photography and color into the realm of dance, landscape, and architecture, yielding visually electrifying imagery. To create Choreograph, Welling photographed dancers performing in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Los Angeles, ultimately combining these images with landscapes and architecture. In a multichannel hack, Welling attains "pathological color"- the purposeful misuse of imaging technologies as a way to short-circuit conventions of photographic representation. Welling notes: "To my surprise the buildings and landscapes that I used o!en seem to function like theatrical stages for the dancers. . . . suggest a kind of ch???ora-Greek for space and the root of choreograph. By choosing to use 'choreograph,' drawing with space, as a noun, I am noting its similarity to 'photograph,' drawing with light." Lisa Hostetler, curator of photographs at the George Eastman Museum, contributes an essay that puts this body of work into the context of James Welling's larger output, asserting that Choreograph functions as an antidote to modernistic ideas about photography, while also providing a compelling summation of Welling's prior practice. This volume accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York, opening in July 2020"
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