... I began showing the black border of the negative as part of the image, something I'd never done before. I began to realize that the edge of the negative represents the shadow of the camera, the opaqueness of matter.… — James Welling Copy Share Image
[Photography] underlines the photographer. That's the Barthesian this has been. Well, this has been for the photographer as well. The photographer is the hidden… — James Welling Copy Share Image
It's not that I don't care about content, but content is not the only way a photograph has meaning. — James Welling Copy Share Image
There is a narrative behind every image. I often imagine being able to see the photographer standing behind the camera, or perhaps crouching or… — James Welling Copy Share Image
Even an ugly, abject photograph bears the recording of its making... my goal [is] to create dense objects, works in which many lines of… — James Welling Copy Share Image
... I began showing the black border of the negative as part of the image, something I'd never done before. I began to realize… — James Welling Copy Share Image
A photograph records both the thing in front of the camera and the conditions of its making... A photograph is also a document of… — James Welling Copy Share Image
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