Glass House Spring Reflections, 2008
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In his architectural views of Philip Johnson's Glass House, photographer James Welling transforms this iconic subject matter into mutable and transcendent form. Over the course of three years (2006-9), the Glass House served as the laboratory for Welling's photographic experiments in color, transparency, and reflectivity. Approaching the Glass House as a "lens in the Connecticut landscape," Welling manipulates light and the information it carries with it by placing a variety of colored filters over his camera to create unexpectedly saturated images. At once abstract and representational, Glass House Spring Reflections, 2008 alters our perception of a landmark architectural work.
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