Doug Fogelson
Chemical Alterations
Chemical Alterations 2012–2022 presents a photographic series by Doug Fogelson (b. 1970) that reflects the range of impacts caused by climate change around the planet. Using a process that combines traditional landscape photography with a chemical bath of toxic cleaning products to alter the original analogue film, Fogelson illustrates what are often invisible changes to the environment. Such changes culminate as disastrous events like fire, flood, drought, increasingly powerful storms, and overall global warming. Images of natural spaces that include mountains, deserts, volcanoes, jungles, oceans, rivers, and forests become represented in a state of flux. Through the processing of the film, traces such as bubbles, crystals, fingerprints, and dust are integrated into the images, probing the borderline of abstraction.
July 2023
ISBN 978-3-7356-0939-7
29,8 × 24,1 cm
112 pages
52 colored illustrations
Hardcover
Languages: English
Text by
Eiren Caffall, Jon Feinstein
Design by
Ryan Edmund Thiel, Chicago
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