Crumpled shiny black foil fills the frame with dense, wrinkled textures and reflective highlights.

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2-29 I

1980

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 3 7/16 × 4 in. (8.7 × 10.2 cm)
Accession number: 96.25
Acquired: 1996
Credit line: Purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee
Department: collection

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James Welling, 2-29 I, 1980. Gelatin silver print, image: 3 7/16 × 4 in. (8.7 × 10.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee 96.25

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Exhibitions in the Whitney's archive featuring any of the artists listed for this work. Artwork-level exhibition history is not published by the museum; the list below is artist-level.

Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection 2016-04-02 – 2017-04-02
Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner 2015-11-20 – 2016-03-06
Whitney Biennial 2008 2008-03-06 – 2008-06-01
Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940–2001 2002-06-26 – 2002-09-22
Heart, Mind, Body, Soul: American Art in the 1990's 1997-11-26 – 1998-01-04

2-29 I

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