Path in Woods, Great Spruce Head Island, Maine

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Path in Woods, Great Spruce Head Island, Maine

Creator

Eliot Porter

American Photographer · 1901–1990

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> 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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Date
May 30,1981
Medium
Dye imbibition print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
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A path leading through a wood of bare trees. The ground of the forest is covered in green grass. A small pile of tree branches is stacked beside the trunk of a tree in the foreground.

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