James Welling: Choreograph (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781683952220)

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

Author: James Welling
ISBN-10: 1683952227
ISBN-13: 9781683952220
Publisher: Aperture Direct
Language: English
Published: 09/29/2020
Pages: 104
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.85lbs
Size: 11.90h x 9.20w x 0.60d