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Red Tree near Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee
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 October 7, 1967; print 1988
- Medium
- Dye imbibition print
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- Photographs
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Porter's portrait of a tree with brilliant red fall foliage is meant to inspire preservation of the land for its beauty. Between the late 1930s, when the first popular color film was invented, and the mid-1970s, Porter dedicated himself to photographing nature. Remarkable for its subtle luminosity, his work was published in concert with conservation efforts and contributed to widespread acceptance of color photographs as art.
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