james welling's flowers
I recently purchased this beautiful exhibition catalogue for my mom's birthday gift featuring the colorful, Rorschach Test-like photograms of flowers by the esteemed Los Angeles-based conceptual photographer, James Welling. Welling placed the blossoms of a common southern California plant on sheets of 8x10 film and exposed them to light. The negatives were then projected onto special photo paper through a color mural enlarger and color filters, to produce the dramatic, spectral, almost sun- or moon-dappled images reproduced here. See more about the book here or see some of the prints here.
beautiful. Reminds me a bit of David Cheah's pillows with bouganvillea. Thanks for posting!
Posted by: Pam | May 06, 2008 at 09:57 AM
beautiful work! Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: heidi | May 06, 2008 at 10:12 AM
Love it! Very ethereal.
Posted by: Giada | May 06, 2008 at 02:19 PM
Wow that is a really beautiful catalog.
Posted by: Sketchee | May 07, 2008 at 12:40 AM
Jim Welling is my photography professor!
Posted by: Ashi | May 13, 2008 at 11:25 PM