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WALEAD BESHTY (B. 1976)
Untitled
signed with the artist's initials, numbered and dated 'WBCO9009SSP' (on the reverse)
cyanotype with unique folds, on lightweight wove paper
7 ⅞ x 5 ⅞ in. (20 x 14.9 cm.)
Executed in 2009. This work is number 90 from an edition of 100 unique variants, and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Side Street Projects.
Provenance
Private collection
Anon. sale; Paddle8 Online Auction, 17 April 2014, lot 42
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
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Lot Essay

“I was never engaged with making the perfect print I’m much more interested in photography as a place where picture-making or a discourse on images intersects with reality and also in the glitches and the noise that the different kinds of technologies produce.” – Walead Beshty

In an age of digital images, Beshty turns to a technology of nostalgia. Using one of the earliest photographic processes, Walead Beshty takes cyanotype treated sheets and then folds each sheet before exposing it to varying degrees of Los Angeles sunlight. Thus, each sheet, such as the present lot, becomes a unique recording of Los Angeles' sunshine.

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