Ponderosa Pine, Bear Head, Jemez Mountains, New Mexico

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Ponderosa Pine, Bear Head, Jemez Mountains, New Mexico

Creator

Eliot Porter

American Photographer · 1901–1990

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> 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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Date
negative August 28, 1960; print 1963
Medium
Dye imbibition print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
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The dark trunk of a pine tree, in shadow, seen against a forest.

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