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Crumpled black plastic sheet with shiny, wrinkled texture filling the frame.

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Spiral (1-8-80)

James Welling

1980

Medium
Gelatin silver print mounted on paperboard
Dimensions
Sheet: 4 15/16 × 4 in. (12.5 × 10.2 cm) Image: 4 11/16 × 4 3/4 in. (11.9 × 12.1 cm)
Accession number
96.22
Acquired
1996
Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee
Department
collection

About this work

James Welling, Spiral (1-8-80), 1980. Gelatin silver print mounted on paperboard, sheet: 4 15/16 × 4 in. (12.5 × 10.2 cm) Image: 4 11/16 × 4 3/4 in. (11.9 × 12.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee 96.22

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