I just didn't." In the 1960s, Eggleston ignored the prevailing wisdom that color photography was commercial, even vulgar. "Fine art photography didn't exist in color," he said.

This technique is particularly effective in abstract photography, where the focus is on form, color, and texture rather than literal representation.

For her new certain silence project, the artist from Mexico City worked with toxic color chemicals — inside a completely dark photographic room, relying on touch and sound to guide her movements ...

The body of work is documentary in nature, but Welling is also an abstract artist, interested in pure color and the vagaries of representation. The work at the Brandywine straddles both impulses.

The black and white photographs, photograms, and the decaying glass boxes are all offspring of the same formula. Their existence with the space is like a conversation between siblings.