PHOTOGRAPHS
Fulton, Hamish
England (1946 - )
A Walk Through the Heat of the Day
1979
Gelatin silver print
8 9/16 x 26 7/16 in. (21.7 x 67.1 cm) image size; 9 5/16 x 26 7/16 in. (23.6 x 67.1 cm) image with text size; 12 x 29 7/16 in. (30.5 x 74.8 cm) board size
Joseph and Elaine Monsen Photography Collection, gift of Joseph and Elaine Monsen and The Boeing Company
FA 97.66

Hamish Fulton's work is built around walks he has taken, mostly in rural settings, with the photographs recording certain prospects coming into view along his routes. Since Fulton regards his real artwork as the action of walking through a landscape, he does not see his photographers as documentary, but rather as a kind of personal souvenir or memento. The particular views are chosen and photographs taken because they "symbolize the walk." Since they are often strongly horizontal, the images convey a sense of walking as a passage through time. Rather than being descriptive of place as in traditional landscape photography, Fulton's work is more conceptual: an analog of experience." -- Label copy for After Art: Rethinking 150 Years of Photography, December 4, 1994 to March 26, 1995.