TOM FELS (B. 1946), Arbor 8-10-14 — Nos. 3 & 4 (Buckthorn), 2014

TOM FELS (B. 1946)
Arbor 8-10-14 — Nos. 3 & 4 (Buckthorn), 2014
cyanotype diptych
signed, titled and dated in pencil (verso)
each image/sheet: 36 x 24 in. (90.5 x 60.5 cm.)
overall: 38 5/8 x 67 in. (98 x 170.1 cm.)
This work is unique.

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A curator and historian of photography, Tom Fels makes large-format cyanotypes in the footsteps of those produced in 1843 by Anna Atkins for her historic publication, Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions. Produced using only light and sensitised paper fixed in water, the magnetic blue of the cyanotype process traces in silhouette the subject of this image, a tree in his back garden, leaving an overall abstract impression. Made directly from living plants, without camera or intermediary negative, works such as this diptych are unique. Fels work has been shown at The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, The Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, and is represented in numerous public and private collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.