Thomas Kellner
51#01 Houston, Dancing Chimneys, Houston Refinery

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Artist Thomas Kellner(German, born 1966)German, born 1966

CultureGerman

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51#01 Houston, Dancing Chimneys, Houston Refinery

Date2006

PlaceHouston, Texas, United States

MediumChromogenic print

DimensionsImage: 35 1/16 × 34 3/4 in. (89.1 × 88.3 cm)
Sheet: 35 1/16 × 34 3/4 in. (89.1 × 88.3 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Photo Forum 2007

Object number2008.19

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionThomas Kellner’s works are made as “straight” analogue photographs but are dependent upon digital processing. Kellner composes an image as a series of frames on a photographic contact sheet, working up from the bottom right to take each picture as one rectangle in the overall grid. He scans his film negatives and uses them without manipulating or reordering any of the individual shots. Before transitioning to digital processing, Kellner was limited to the few rolls of film he could manually seam together on a darkroom enlarger. Adopting Photoshop allowed him to create larger, significantly more complex images through digitally seaming together many rolls of film.
Provenance[John Cleary Gallery, Houston]; purchased by MFAH, 2008.
Exhibition History"Photo Forum 2007," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Lower Brown Corridor, September 17, 2007-January 14, 2008.

"After Photoshop: Manipulated Photography in the Digital Age," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 19 - September 8, 2013.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Marked in ink on verso lower center: "(signature) 51#01 Houston Dancing chimneys, Houston Refinery, 2006 1/12+3"

Signed in ink on verso lower center: "Thomas Kellner"

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