Ellen Land-Weber
Focus Gallery
ELLEN LAND-WEBER’s exhibitioncoincident with the publication of her monograph The Passionate Collectorreveals an aspect of her work entirely different from the machine process imagery for which she is well known. For the past two years Land-Weber has collected “collectors,” traveling around the United States making portraits of individuals and their possessions. The collections run the gamut from the expected: bells, angels, license plates, antique glass; to the less common: cash registers, credit cards, carousel horses, and paperback copies of Catch 22; to the downright bizarre: