a group of 20 chromogenic prints, each flush-mounted, each signed 'Henry Wessel' and numbered, 2 titled, and one dated by the photographer in pencil or ink on the reverse, 1990, printed later; together with a Lucite clamshell box with 'Henry Wessel' letterpress label (20)

Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica

Acquired by the present owner from the above

Other prints of these images:

Henry Wessel: Real Estate Photographs (Göttingen, 2006), cover, bacಞk cover, pp. 7, 13, 17, 21, 23, 31, 33, 35, 39, 41, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51, and 57

Thomas Zander, ed., Henry Wessel (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2007, in conjunction with the exhibit🌸ion), pp. 120-22🅘 and 124-28)

 

Each photograph is in generally excellent condition. 16 prints are signed and numbered in ink; 4 prints are signed and numbered in pencil (2 of these are titled 'Real Estate Photograph,' and one is dated 1990). No. 90894 has a bumped upper left corner. The plates are as follows: No. 907218 No. 90467 No. 909215 No. 908015 No. 90602 No. 90894 No. 903911 No. 90482 No. 904317 No. 907914 No. 91117 No. 912214 No. 912715 No. 908617 No. 91167 No. 912315 No. 91265 No. 908614
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Henry Wessel was raised in New Jersey in a hous🦄e that was attached to his moth📖er's real estate office.  He made these photographs in and around Richmond, California, between 1990 and 1992. Wessel writes,

'Most photographs of houses in a real estate office have a similar shape.  Each picture is a platform for hundreds of discrete facts that work in accord toward a specific and unique meaning' (Real Estate Photographs, introduction).