Bill Armstrong
After Roger Fenton I
2015

Name: After Roger Fenton I
Brand: Bill Armstrong
Price: 2500 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Archival pigment print Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso 20 x 24 inches (Edition of 10) 30 x 36 inches (Edition of 5) 40 x 48 inches (Edition of 5) This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Bill Armstrong writes: “In After: Dreaming in Color, I imagine the history of photography as if in a dream, making color interventions into iconic 19th-century photographs. “My process is to transform appropriated images taken from the web and from books by injecting color, either digitally or by manually using color filters and a light table—or a combination of both. After: Dreaming in Color continues the arc of my investigation into layering found or appropriated images that I have been pursuing since the late 1970s, first with collages made from advertising posters and then with the blurred images of the Infinity series that I am known for. “In my research I have found that the standard histories of photography often somewhat arbitrarily pass over the fact that color has been around since the beginning: in Anna Atkins’ cyanotypes; in opalescent daguerreotypes; in hand–colored and sepia-toned photographs. In response to this oversight, I have created my own dreamlike history of color photography. It is a reverie that continues my ongoing study of the contrast and harmony of colors, but this time with an eye toward wit, humor, and visual puns.”

Creator:

Bill Armstrong (1952, American)

Creation Year:

2015

Dimensions:

Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 24 in (60.96 cm)

More Editions & Sizes:

30 x 36 inches (Edition of 5)Price: $5,00040 x 48 inches (Edition of 5)Price: $9,000

Medium:

Archival Pigment

Movement & Style:

Contemporary