James Fee Silver Gelatin Photograph "Harrisburg, PA", 1993
Item Details
James Fee (American, 1949 – 2006)
Harrisburg, PA, 1993
Unsigned
Edition 6/25
Catherine Edelman Gallery label attached to verso
American photographer known for his images of abandoned factories and lonesome highways. Fee’s approach to photography led museum curators to give his exhibitions such titles as “American Noir” and “The Weight of Time”. His photographs are permanently housed in the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts, the William Benton Museum of Art, and the Getty Museum. Fee once collaborated with sculptor George Herms, who shared his attraction to the Beat Generation. During his later career, Fee taught photography at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California from 1994–2003. In 1993 he taught at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. Fee photographed images that he thought represented United States cultural icons in decline, such as crumbling drive-in movie theaters and rusting, abandoned cars. Peleliu Project Fee’s father Russell James Fee served in the U.S. Navy as a medical corpsman attached to the Marine Corps during World War II. During a harrowing battle on Peleliu Island in 1944, he photographed his fellow sailors and Marines and the aftermath of battles. Russell Fee died in 1972. In 1998, James Fee traveled to Peleliu Island and photographed remnants of the World War II battles that still remained on the island, such as rusted and overgrown tanks, roads, and the tip of a sunken Japanese fighter plane. He attempted to photograph the same scenes recorded by his father more than 50 years earlier. In an exhibit he called the “Peleliu Project” Fee artistically combined his own photographs with images his father had taken. The exhibit traveled the US and was exhibited at Craig Krull Gallery Santa Monica in 2001 and then housed in the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts permanently.
Condition
- light wear to frame.
Dimensions
- measures frame; image measures 9″ × 9.5″.
- Item not examined outside of mounting.
Item #
ITMG749412
