Untitled #36
Artist
Frederic Weber
CultureAmerican
Date1993
MediumDye bleach print
DimensionsOverall: 40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alexandra R. Marshall, Houston, TX
Object number95.3
Not on view
Label TextFrederic Weber
American (b. 1955)
Untitled #36, 1993
Cibachrome print
Gift of Alexandra R. Marshall, Houston, Texas 95.3
Some of the earliest images in the history of photography were made without the use of a camera. A good example, included in this exhibition, is William Henry Fox Talbot's Fern Leaf of ca. 1839. Although the overall effect is quite different, Frederic Weber also created this image without actually using a camera. Appropriating an image of the Hiroshima atomic bomb mushroom cloud (which was made with a camera), he manipulated and dyed the original image and transferred the film emulsion to an 8 x 10-inch glass plate. That image was then enlarged to create the finished color print displayed here. Weber has stated that his photographs "are not an end, but a stop on the way. They are episodes in a continuing fascination with regeneration and transformation. They are records of the human condition and musings on the temporality of both life and art."
Edited By: GLYExhibition History"Treasures for the Community: The Chrysler Collects, 1989-1996," October 25, 1996 - March 2, 1997.
