Wsbc #16
Artist
Terry Calen
MediumSilver print
Dimensions16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineSeattle City Light 1% for Art Portable Works Collection
In many artworks, perhaps most particularly in black and white photographs, the image can be seen both as a depiction of a time and place and an arrangement of shape and light. What makes this scene interesting to look at is not its subject (a pile of dirt on a construction site), but how the photograph makes one see the place through the manipulation of darkness, light and the arrangement of the objects within the rectangle of the picture.