William W. Fuller's photographic work can be seen in collections at the Sheldon Museum of Art in Lincoln, Nebraska; the Santa Barbara Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston; and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson. His work has been featured in Lenswork and Black and White Magazine. This particular photograph depicts the Wiltern building in Los Angeles from 1986. Featured in Fuller's book The City: A Formalist View of American Urban Architecture (also included in this auction item), the photograph was taken with a large format camera, and is a Gelatin Silver Print and is professionally framed. Fuller compresses cityscapes into layered, graphic compositions depicting landmark architecture or distinctive skylines of the urban landscape. This modernist approach is universally appealing in its clean, crisp and cool elegance.

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This package includes:

1. Framed Photo print : Wiltern Theater, 1986

Gelatin silver print, printed in the darkroom personally by Mr. Fuller from 4x5? negatives.

11x14? gelatin silver print matted to 16x20"

Value: $700

2. Book: The City

A Formalist View of American Urban Architecture
William W. Fuller has been photographing American cities with his large format camera for nearly forty years. Fuller has driven across the United States dozens of times. During his travels, he has visited, explored, and photographed Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Miami, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Denver, Phoenix, Houston, and Atlanta. In black and white, he compresses cityscapes into layered, graphic compositions.

Although the locations of each picture are not named in the titles, the pictures are not portraits of particular cities: rather than depict their landmark architecture or distinctive skylines, Fuller mines the urban landscape for dynamic compositions of shape, line, form, negative space, light and shadow. This modernist approach to photographing the landscape results in a collection of images that are universally appealing in their clean, crisp and cool elegance.

Photographs by William W. Fuller, introduction by James K. Ballinger, essay by Rebecca Senf.

Value: $70

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