
Combine Print (CMY/Six Magnet/2 of 5: Irvine, California, March 26th 2010, Fujicolor Crystal Archive Super Type C, Em. No. 148-006, 80510)
In this work, Walead Beshty continues his investigation into the material and chemical conditions of photographic production, generating abstract fields of cyan, magenta, and yellow through direct manipulation of light-sensitive paper rather than conventional image capture. The work's exhaustive title functions as a document of its own making, recording the precise location, date, and material specifications of its creation. By foregrounding process and provenance, Beshty challenges the photograph's traditional role as a transparent window onto the world, instead presenting it as a physical object shaped by contingency and industrial circumstance.
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October 17, 2013
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