Goldring, Nancy. Nancy Goldring: Distillations: Revisiting South Asia, October 24, 2000-January 24, 2001.

Southeast Museum of Photography, 2000. Catalog for exhibition.  Texts by Nancy Goldring, Ellen Handy, Sudhrashan Seneviratne, et al. [Photographs in color taken in India and Sri Lanka.] Wraps, 40 pages, fine.  Uncommon.  Summary:

Nancy Goldring: Distillations: Revisiting South Asia is an exhibition catalog published by the Southeast Museum of Photography to accompany a solo exhibition of American artist Nancy Goldring.

The publication documents a body of color visual work created by Goldring following her travels in India and Sri Lanka, supported by a Fulbright creative research grant.

• The "Foto-Projection" Method: The catalog highlights Goldring's signature artistic technique. Rather than presenting straight documentary photographs, she constructs complex, multi-layered images. Her process involves drawing, building physical paper models of architectural spaces, projecting slide photography onto these models, and re-photographing the resulting composite to create a single, flattened, and luminous image.

• Aesthetic of Memory and Travel: The "distillations" of the title refer to the way Goldring’s images function as psychological reconstructions of travel. By merging drawing and photography, the works represent the fragmenting, shifting, and layering of memory, capturing the spirit of South Asian sacred and vernacular architecture.

• Luminous and Saturated Color: Critical commentary within the catalog notes how Goldring’s highly evolved methodology produces deeply saturated, glowing colors that provide a sensory, poetic meditation on cultural translation.

• Scholarly Contributions: The volume features introductory essays and critical commentary by curators and scholars, including photographic historian Ellen Handy and Sri Lankan archaeologist Sudharshan Seneviratne, providing both art-historical and cultural context to Goldring’s interpretations of the region.