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Bill Westheimer: New Vistas: Photographers working with the Landscape

In 2015, the Getty Museum featured the seminal exhibition, Light, Paper, Process, a show that celebrated the spirit of invention and discovery at its point of departure, focusing on “investigations on the light sensitivity and chemical processing of photo

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Artist Bill Westheimer has a new project of found landscapes, Borderlands, that explores similar territories. The title describes vistas and boundaries, but it also describes the physical origins of the photographs–on the borders of wet plate images. By shifting how he sees the marks and mistakes of historic collodion processes, he has created new worlds and new landscapes.

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