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James Welling

A little HistoryJames Welling was born in 1951, and visited many art museums and galleriesin New York.

He Studied drawing, painting, and video early in his career as an artist.

In 1970 he began taking his first black and white photographs, night shots of the city of Pittsburgh

A little HistoryJames Welling was born in 1951, and visited many art museums and galleriesin New York.

He Studied drawing, painting, and video early in his career as an artist.

In 1970 he began taking his first black and white photographs, night shots of the city of Pittsburgh

In 1975 Welling began taking Polaroid pictures with long exposures, and would heat the prints during development.

Welling never studied photography at an institution, but in fall of 1976 he set up his own dark room to experiment and learn the process of developing and printing.

This was all just the beginning of his photography career, and his love for color.

Early Work 1970-1986

Pollock/Serra, 1974

Early Work 1970-1986

Hands 1, 1975

One of the first projects he started was the “Diary/Landscape” series, and he worked on it

from 1977 till he finally finished it in 1986.

The “Diary/Landscape” series was inspired by the handwriting in the 1940's diary and journals of his great-great- grandparents, while at the same time

photography Connecticut landscape.

Christmas Eve, Guilford, CT,

Welling Steps Into Digital Photography

Wellings Series titled “Light Source” started in 1992 marks his first project using digital photography.

In this project Welling worked with multiple exposures, and photographed subjects that literally transmitted light.

“ Light Sources”

Baffle, 1996

“ Light Sources”

Lisbon, 1995

“ Light Sources”

2-29 II, 1996

Welling works with color

In 1995 Welling moved to Los Angeles to work at UCLA as the head of theirPhotography area in the art department.

Soon after Welling began photographing and developing with color filters.

He completed his project “Hexachromes” in 2005.

These photographs were made by exposing the same sheet of 4x5 film through several different colored filters.

The work of James Welling appears everywhere