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Diary/Landscape (Hardcover)
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Diary/Landscape (Hardcover)
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For more than thirty-five years, James Welling has explored the
material and conceptual possibilities of photography.
"Diary/Landscape"--the first mature body of work by this important
contemporary artist--set the framework for his subsequent
investigations of abstraction and his fascination with nineteenth-
and twentieth-century New England.
In July 1977, Welling began photographing a two-volume travel
diary kept by his great-grandmother Elizabeth C. Dixon, as well as
landscapes in southern Connecticut. In one closely cropped image,
lines of tight cursive share the page with a single ivy leaf
preserved in the diary. In another snowy image, a stand of leafless
trees occludes the gleaming Long Island sound. In subject and form,
Welling emulated the great American modernists Alfred Stieglitz,
Paul Strand, and Walker Evans--a bold move for an artist associated
with radical postmodernism. At the same time, Welling's close-ups
of handwriting push to the fore the postmodernist themes of copying
and reproduction.
A beautiful and moving meditation on family, history, memory, and
place, "Diary/Landscape" reintroduced history and private emotion
as subjects in high art, while also helping to usher in the
centrality of photography and theoretical questions about
originality that mark the epochal Pictures Generation. The book is
published to accompany the first-ever complete exhibition of this
series of pivotal photographs, now owned by the Art Institute of
Chicago.
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