#2001-113, Carrara (Primary Title)
edition 1/15 (Translation)
William Wylie, American, born 1957 (Artist)
"[I investigate] how we stand in relation to landscape, how we move from the general to the specific in each encounter with a place, and how human lives are interwoven into the histories of those places." —William Wylie Wylie addresses themes of place and landscape using large format black-and-white photography, which can produce images of fine detail and clarity. For his Carrara project, Wylie focused on the Italian quarries that supplied the marble for the Pantheon, Trajan’s Column,and Michelangelo’s David. This photograph, showing one of the cut blocks in the process of being shaped, reflects his eye for balanced composition and spare renditions of the natural world. Wylie achieves an almost palpable sense of the stone’ssurface. At the same time, his focus on a single object filling the foreground flattens and equalizes forms. Wylie’s photographs thus echo Minimalist sculpture as well as Modernist painting.
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Gift of Jeanne and Richard S. Press
© William Wylie
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