James Welling: Choreograph (Hardcover)

James Welling: Choreograph By James Welling (Photographer), Lisa Hostetler (Text by (Art/Photo Books)) Cover Image
By James Welling (Photographer), Lisa Hostetler (Text by (Art/Photo Books))
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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 often seem to function like theatrical stages for the dancers. By choosing to use 'choreograph, ' drawing with dance, 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, printed in the United States with an extended ink range that captures the work's wild array of vibrant colors, accompanied an exhibition of the same name at the George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York.

Printed in the US in a limited edition of 1,000 copies
Product Details
ISBN: 9781683952220
ISBN-10: 1683952227
Publisher: Aperture Direct
Publication Date: September 29th, 2020
Pages: 104
Language: English