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Treehouse Freese Road, Varna, New York
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Rhea GarenAmerican Photographer · 1959–present
All works by this person →Rhea Garen brings a trained scientist's eye to her photographic studies of the small private landscapes of neighborhood yards. With a biology degree from Cornell University, Garen worked as a laboratory technician for eight years before leaving the sciences to study photography at the School of Art and Design, University of Illinois. She is drawn to chaotic, idiosyncratic places in which neglected
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- 1993
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- Chromogenic print
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- American
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- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
A large tree shelters--and at the same time overwhelms--a house. The lush greens of summer suffuse this scene, even as the brown leaves pasted in the second-story window recall the previous autumn. An obliquely viewed street sign in the foreground divides the house and introduces a cautionary note to the scene. While the tree provides summer shade, an adjoining woodpile suggests the approach of winter and the tree's ultimate fate. Rhea Garen photographed this house near a creek she passed by every day while walking her dog. Interested in the way a place changes with the seasons, Garen often returns to a site to photograph it at different times of the year.
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