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Crumpled shiny foil fills the frame with dense, reflective wrinkles and highlights.

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August 16B, 1980

James Welling

1980

Medium
Gelatin silver print mounted on paperboard
Dimensions
Sheet: 4 × 5 in. (10.2 × 12.7 cm) Image: 3 3/4 × 4 3/4 in. (9.5 × 12.1 cm) Mount (board): 4 × 5 × 1/16 in. (10.2 × 12.7 × 0.2 cm) Frame: 17 7/16 × 14 7/16 × 1 in. (44.3 × 36.7 × 2.5 cm) Mount (mat board): 17 × 14 in. (43.2 × 35.6 cm)
Accession number
96.15
Acquired
1996
Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee
Department
collection

About this work

James Welling, August 16B, 1980, 1980. Gelatin silver print mounted on paperboard, sheet: 4 × 5 in. (10.2 × 12.7 cm) Image: 3 3/4 × 4 3/4 in. (9.5 × 12.1 cm) Mount (board): 4 × 5 × 1/16 in. (10.2 × 12.7 × 0.2 cm) Frame: 17 7/16 × 14 7/16 × 1 in. (44.3 × 36.7 × 2.5 cm) Mount (mat board): 17 × 14 in. (43.2 × 35.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee 96.15

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