Michael Wesely uses innovative photographic techniques to render images of fleeting beauty in 21st-century still-lifes, effectively presenting portraits of time. Wesely, who is best known for creating years-long photo-documentation of urban building projects, employs an extended shutter speed to show yellow tulips in bud, bloom, and disintegration in a single image, their entire lifespan captured permanently in the photographic frame. ⁠ ⁠ Pictured: Michael Wesely, 20.5 – 31.5.2006, from the series Tulpen, 2006 Lambda print ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ #contemporaryart #21cartist #Tulips #21cSeeingNow ⁠ #photography #art #stilllifephotography