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Las Trampas, New Mexico
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Alex HarrisAmerican Photographer · 1949–present
All works by this person →> I met [Walker] Evans in 1969 or '70, and I got to know him pretty well. His house was filled with collections of all kinds. He tied his photography closely to the notion of collecting, the notion that photography is essentially a matter of collecting and editing images. That had a huge influence on me. > > --Alex Harris In 1972, one year after completing his undergraduate degree at Yale where he
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- negative March 1984; print 1993
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- Chromogenic print
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Color emerges very subtly in this nearly all white snowscape, with the green of the scattered hay in the middle ground bringing out the green of the nearly black piñon bushes dotting the hillside. Alex Harris had initially feared that his photographs would be too dependent on color, but this composition relies more on the subtle shadows and contrasts of an engraving. The series to which this print belongs, "Red White Blue and God Bless You," marked his first use of color, instead of black-and-white photography, to document northern New Mexico.
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