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Crumpled reflective foil with shiny highlights filling a dark rectangular frame.

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August 16A 1980

James Welling

1980

Medium
Gelatin silver print mounted on paperboard
Dimensions
Sheet: 4 15/16 × 3 7/8 in. (12.5 × 9.8 cm) Image: 4 3/4 × 3 3/4 in. (12.1 × 9.5 cm) Mount (board): 4 15/16 × 3 7/8 × 1/16 in. (12.5 × 9.8 × 0.2 cm) Mount (mat board): 17 × 14 in. (43.2 × 35.6 cm) Frame: 17 7/16 × 14 7/16 × 1 in. (44.3 × 36.7 × 2.5 cm)
Accession number
96.14
Acquired
1996
Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee
Edition
Ed. 3
Department
collection

About this work

James Welling, August 16A 1980, 1980. Gelatin silver print mounted on paperboard, sheet: 4 15/16 × 3 7/8 in. (12.5 × 9.8 cm) Image: 4 3/4 × 3 3/4 in. (12.1 × 9.5 cm) Mount (board): 4 15/16 × 3 7/8 × 1/16 in. (12.5 × 9.8 × 0.2 cm) Mount (mat board): 17 × 14 in. (43.2 × 35.6 cm) Frame: 17 7/16 × 14 7/16 × 1 in. (44.3 × 36.7 × 2.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee 96.14

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