Moab (92 AN-12)
Artist
Ray K. Metzker
(American, 1931 - 2014)
Date1992 (printed 1993)
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 17 × 17 in. (43.2 × 43.2 cm)
Support: 23 7/8 × 19 7/8 in. (60.6 × 50.5 cm)
Support: 23 7/8 × 19 7/8 in. (60.6 × 50.5 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Ray K. Metzker, 1993
Object number2018.9.1
DescriptionA dense thicket of bare branched Aspen trees with piles of lichen covered rocks that can be seen through the branches.eMuseum Notes
Metzker
is known for his dark images of urban Chicago and Philadelphia but in 1985,
after completing work on a retrospective of his photographs, he traveled abroad
and lived for several months in Tuscany, Italy. Starting a new chapter of life
and career, the artist concentrated on the natural landscape for the first
time, a subject that occupied him for the next fifteen years. This is one of
his early landscapes made in Utah, where he was both inspired and challenged by
the stark light and unfamiliar vegetation.
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