9 August 2001--7 June 2004 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Michael Wesely
German, born 1963
2001-04
A chromogenic photograph created by exposing a single image for nearly three years to condense the slow construction and shifting light around MoMA into one time-compressed, luminous cityscape.
At first glance towering glass facades and scaffolding appear to melt together beneath long bands of streaked light and soft, ghostly blurs—cars, pedestrians, and weather rendered as diaphanous traces and floating lenslike orbs across the street.
By treating exposure time as a material, Wesely turned documentary photography into a method for making duration and urban transformation visible, expanding how photographs can record time rather than a single instant.
Medium
Chromogenic print
Dimensions
55 1/8 × 40 3/16" (140 × 102 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Purchase
Accession
472.2005.x1-x2
Palette
Exhibitions
