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Photograph by Ellen Carey, (Crush & Pull, Polaroid 20 x 24 color positive—unique, triptych, 80" x 22" (each)/80" x 66" (all), 2019). The image illustrates a key and unique body of work in Ellen Carey’s work beginning in 1996 and continuing throughout her career—her "Photography Degree Zero" works, comprising her experimental, darkroom-less images made using a large-format Polaroid 20 x 24 camera, which explore the possibilities of minimalist photography. This work and has been publicly exhibited in prominent venues, collected in museums, included in art historical texts, and discussed by art critics in national and international press and art publications.

Artist Ellen Carey. Copyright held by the artist.

Ellen Carey

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key, later and unique experimental body of work in Ellen Carey's career: her "Photography Degree Zero" works (1996– ), which are experimental, darkroom-less images made using a large-format Polaroid 20 x 24 camera that explore the possibilities of minimalist photography and have been compared to the art of Ellsworth Kelly, Morris Louis and Larry Poons. This well-known work These images—made without reference to a subject—defies fundamental expectations of "picture taking" through an image-making technique that Carey discovered, which exploits random developing emulsion flows by pulling the film from the camera (the "Pulls" series) and interrupting the dye-transfer process. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to visualize this key, experimental part of her practice and its impact on contemporary art and photography. Carey’s work of this type and this work in particular continued to gain her wide recognition and is discussed extensively in the article and by prominent critics and publications cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Ellen Carey, and the work no longer is viewable, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.