LA-C 98

James Welling

1978 · Gelatin silver print · Photographs

Shortly after graduating from art school in 1976, Welling purchased a view camera from a pawnshop and began making photographs—mostly at dawn and dusk—along his regular routes around Los Angeles. These contact prints, from four-by-five-inch film negatives from the series Los Angeles Architecture and Portraits, are incisive studies of artificial illumination, a subject that would preoccupy the artist over the next two decades.

Artist

James Welling

Date

1978

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Gift of the artist, in honor of Harriett and William Welling, 2000