by James Welling
- Author(s)
- Noam Elcott, Sylvia Lavin, James Welling
- Publication
- Bologna : Damiani editore, 2010
- Scope
- 96 Pages, illustrated, 22 x 33 cm.
- ISBN
- 9788862081610
Over the course of three years, from 2006 to 2009, James Welling photographed the Glass House, the architectural landmark estate that Philip Johnson built in New Canaan, Connecticut, in 1949. Welling's photos offer a decided departure from the familiar views of the house and grounds: using digital cameras set on a tripod and holding a variety of filters in front of the lens, he created tinted veils and distortions that transformed the image at the moment of exposure, endowing it with powerful swells of glowing color. As Welling described it in an interview with Artforum, the use of filters enabled his project to become "a laboratory for ideas about transparency, reflectivity and color."
- Person as subject
- Philip Johnson, James Welling
- Keywords
- photography , glass architecture , modernism
- Location
- Cabinet 15 - 3: Architectuur en Kunst
- Extra themes
- Architecture and Art
- Remarks
- Includes notes
based on keyword
