File:Ellen Carey, Color Theory, 1995.jpg

Photogram by Ellen Carey, (Color Theory, Polaroid 20 x 24 color positive print, 24" x 20", 1995). The image illustrates a key and unique experimental category of work in Ellen Carey’s work beginning in 1992 and continuing throughout her career, her creation of cameraless photograms, which explore abstraction and conceptual issues at the basis of photography. This work and this specific body of photogram works were publicly exhibited in prominent venues, collected in museums, and discussed in by art critics and national and international press and art publications.

Artist Ellen Carey. Copyright held by the artist.

Ellen Carey

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key and unique experimental category of work in Ellen Carey's career: her early cameraless photograms of the 1990s, which she created in total darkness using photosensitive paper that she crumpled, creased, obscured or filtered and exposed to light, creating color, shadow and depth effects that recorded her actions. This well-known work, which explores abstraction and conceptual issues at the basis of photography, includes a wide range of individual series, whose titles reflect the objects or materials she used to interrupt or strike the paper (e.g., "Push Pins," "Penlights") or reference visual phenomena, such as afterimages ("Blinks"). The re-photographed, multiple exposure work Color Theory bridges her early self-portraits to her mature abstract work and demonstrates her use of photographic color theory and interests in geometry, mathematics and the science of seeing. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to visualize this key developmental and experimental work and its impact on her practice and contemporary art. Carey’s work of this type gained her new recognition and is discussed extensively in the article and by prominent critics and publications cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Ellen Carey, and the work no longer is viewable, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.