Archives for posts tagged ‘exploratory’

Henry Wessel

Henry Wessel Work from his oeuvre. Check out his new book with Steidl. “In Wessel’s images the idiosyncrasies and anomalies of Southern California and the American West are chronicled with a wry objectivity. Insightful and often ironic, these photographs demonstrate that photography can surpass its documentary role to embrace speculation and suggest narrative. Ultimately the […]

James Welling

James Welling Work from his oeuvre. “The various steps involved in the creation of these works are instructive: Welling first arranged and exposed plumbago blossoms on black-and-white sheet-film negatives then printed each one using a different assortment of colored gels. Each work is, then, like the result of a performance in the darkroom, where the […]