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Cypress Trunks and Thalia, Everglades National Park, Florida
Creator
Eliot PorterAmerican Photographer · 1901–1990
All works by this person →> The first objects of nature that attracted me, as might be expected, were the most colorful ones. Of the birds they were those with the brightest plumage, while among other subjects they were the flowers, lichens, and autumn leaves. Gradually, the more subtle hues began to draw my attention--the colors of earth, of decaying wood, of bark, and then the strange colored reflections one sees when on
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- negative February 21, 1954; print 1963
- Medium
- Dye imbibition print
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- American
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- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
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- cb4bbdf7-e2f5-4918-b37e-c63d90bf29e4
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View of the floor of the Everglades with green Thalia dealbata leaves in the foreground. The ground is wet and swampy and the lower half of cypress trunks are visible.
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