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Sculptured Rock, Marble Canyon, Arizona
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 1967; print 1981
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- Dye imbibition print
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A natural rock formation forming a smooth grey spike rising from the ground. A small collection of round, multi-colored rocks are resting in the crevice beside the spike.
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