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Untitled (Motel Pool)
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William LarsonAmerican Photographer · 1942–2019
All works by this person →>My earliest recollection of photography, when I was about seven or eight years old, was of my dad's new darkroom, which he custom built in our basement . . . . To me it was magic, pictures coming from nowhere . . . . It wasn't until my senior year in college that I recaptured any of those feelings again, having taken my first photography class. At that point photography felt very much to me as th
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- 1980
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- Chromogenic print
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- American
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- Getty Museum
>...light that turns the otherwise familiar scene >to the hand-tinted postcards of a dream Like this excerpt from a poem by Eleanor Wilner, this photograph captures the harshness of the Arizona sun at noon and the peculiar clarity of the desert light. While a visiting professor at the University of Arizona, William Gary Larson took a series of such photographs of human habitation in the surrounding desert. Wilner wrote her poem in response to the photographs, and Larson in turn named the photographs the "Tucson Gardens" pictures after her poem.
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