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Doug Fogelson – In Chronology
September 10 - Oct 6, 2026
Doug Fogelson creates multiple-exposure photographs and photograms that blend imagery over both space and time. The forms are static but feel as if they are somehow still in the process of cyclical changes like those we see over the seasons: growth, bloom, entropy, decay.
Using the physical elements of nature such as dirt, plants, seeds, fruit, to create photograms when exposed to color filtered light, the earthly objects are simultaneously the subject that is pictured. Chance plays a significant part in this iterative camera-less process as exposures are made in complete darkness.
When making landscape images, Fogelson does not advance the film entirely, choosing instead how much to advance and composing the succeeding shots to interact with the previous ones in a linear fashion. In this way of connecting space and time across the scenes depicted it is impossible to pre-visualize how the final result will turn out. Bands of overlapping frames bring the viewer back to the machine of a camera as its rectangular format becomes expanded.
Included in In Chronology are two images that use analog photography as a substrate, the base layer of the images are exposed sheets of 8 x 10 film. The two resulting images from Fogelson’s Corpus series were made by applying wet chemicals to the film emulsion and pressing flowering plants into them like a “cliché verre” (absent of the agency of light) yet still making an impression of subject/object similar to that of a photogram.
Lastly, Fogelson alters landscape imagery using common household cleaning chemicals in his Chemical Alterations series, some which are on display here. The chemical alteration has the effect of melting film emulsion and draining the colors of the photographs to their base layers, with results that highlight or depict Climate Change and abstraction.