James Welling

2-25-80
1980

A monochrome photograph depicting a textured surface that resembles crumpled foil or a metallic, wrinkled material, filling the entire frame with its reflective and shadowed folds.
A monochrome photograph depicting a textured surface that resembles crumpled foil or a metallic, wrinkled material, filling the entire frame with its reflective and shadowed folds.

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Date
1980

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print mounted on paperboard

Dimensions
Sheet: 5 × 3 15/16in. (12.7 × 10 cm) Image: 4 3/4 × 3 11/16in. (12.1 × 9.4 cm)

Accession number
96.21

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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James Welling
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