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Grass, Snow, Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Great Sand Dunes National Monument, Colorado
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 September 30, 1959; print 1963
- Medium
- Dye imbibition print
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- American
- Department
- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- a2322fff-ca39-419d-b5b2-da5c4e780198
A valley at the base of mountains, covered in snow. Yellow grass grows through the snow in patches. Clouds hang over the tops of the mountains.
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