{"id":1385,"date":"2025-09-05T19:47:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/reframingphotography\/content\/resources\/artists\/william-lamson\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T13:58:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:58:04","slug":"william-lamson","status":"publish","type":"content","link":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/resources\/artists\/william-lamson\/","title":{"rendered":"William Lamson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">William Lamson\u2019s website<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.williamlamson.com\/\">http:\/\/www.williamlamson.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">William Lamson at Pierogi Gallery<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pierogi2000.com\/artists\/william-lamson\/\">http:\/\/www.pierogi2000.com\/artists\/william-lamson\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">William Lamson, Video:&nbsp;<em>A Line Describing the Sun<\/em>&nbsp;(Excerpt)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y3W_Y4SPFr8&amp;hd=1\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y3W_Y4SPFr8&amp;hd=1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Honor Fraser, \u201cWilliam Lamson\u201d,<em>&nbsp;Frieze Magazine<\/em>, May 2011<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frieze.com\/issue\/review\/william-lamson\/\">http:\/\/www.frieze.com\/issue\/review\/william-lamson\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">William Lamson, video stills from&nbsp;<em>A Line Describing the Sun<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>13:35 minute, 2 Channel Video, 2010<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A Line Describing the Sun<\/em>&nbsp;involved a day long performance in which I followed the path of the sun with a large Fresnel lens mounted on a rolling apparatus. The lens focuses the sun into a 1,600-degree point of light that melts the dry mud, transforming it into a black glassy substance. Over the course of a day, as the sun moves across the sky, a hemispherical arc is imprinted into the lakebed floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.routledge.com\/reframingphotography\/files\/user\/lamson_ALDTS_desert.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.routledge.com\/reframingphotography\/files\/user\/lamson_ALDTS_installingmirror.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.routledge.com\/reframingphotography\/files\/user\/lamson_ALDTS_spotmirror.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.routledge.com\/reframingphotography\/files\/user\/lamson_MG_9011hires.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">William Lamson,&nbsp;<em>time is like the east river<\/em>, 2009<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.routledge.com\/reframingphotography\/files\/user\/lamson_time_0.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">William Lamson,<em>&nbsp;emerge<\/em>, 2007<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.routledge.com\/reframingphotography\/files\/user\/lamson_emerge3hires.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Lamson\u2019s website http:\/\/www.williamlamson.com\/ William Lamson at Pierogi Gallery http:\/\/www.pierogi2000.com\/artists\/william-lamson\/ William Lamson, Video:&nbsp;A Line Describing the Sun&nbsp;(Excerpt) http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y3W_Y4SPFr8&amp;hd=1 Honor Fraser, \u201cWilliam Lamson\u201d,&nbsp;Frieze Magazine, May 2011 http:\/\/www.frieze.com\/issue\/review\/william-lamson\/ William Lamson, video stills from&nbsp;A Line Describing the Sun 13:35 minute, 2 Channel Video, 2010 A Line Describing the Sun&nbsp;involved a day long performance in which I followed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"parent":304,"menu_order":0,"template":"resource-artist","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"topic":[7,9,12],"class_list":["post-1385","content","type-content","status-publish","hentry","category-uncategorized","topic-editing","topic-light-shadow","topic-presentation"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content\/1385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/content"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content\/1385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2355,"href":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content\/1385\/revisions\/2355"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}