Photography
Caleb Charland, "Apple Trees and LEDs," 2011
- Item Number
- 49
- Estimated Value
- 1100 USD
- Opening Bid
- 500 USD
Item Description
Caleb Charland (American, b. 1980)
Apple Trees and LEDs, 2011
Archival pigment print
Artist Proof
Signed and dated on back in ink
Caleb Charland was the recipient of Silver Eye's 2004 Fellowship for Demonstrations, alchemic images that capture the laws of physics in moments of stillness as well as full-tilt action. He continues to combine scientific curiosity with a constructive approach to making pictures, teasing out the marvelous and magical from the mundane. "Each photograph begins with a simple question, ‘How would this look? Is that possible? What would happen if…?”
Here, Charland took advantage of the acid in the flesh of an apple to set up this ethereal photo. He hooked wires into about 300 apples that were still connected to their trees and found that it only took about 10 apples to power 30 small LED lights under a lampshade. He then got the shot using a four-hour exposure.
A video Caleb Charland made about the process of constructing his apple tree project was recently featured on the Discovery Channel (http://watch.discoverychannel.ca/daily-planet/january-2012
About The Artist
Caleb Charland earned a BFA in photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work is included in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Progressive Collection and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
He has been featured in articles in the New Yorker (June 2011); Wall Street Journal (June 2011); Wired Magazine (December 2010); and Harper's Magazine (November 2010).
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