Last Light – Brightest Light (Message to Robert Adams and Timothy H. O'Sullivan) The Rio Grande Entering St. Elena Canyon, The Big Bend, Texas; Last Light – Brightest Light (Message to Robert Adams and Timothy H. O'Sullivan) The Rio Grande Leaving Boquillas Canyon, The Big Bend, Texas
Artist
Thomas Joshua Cooper
(American, born 1946)
Date1996-1997
Mediumgelatin silver prints, selenium and gold chloride toned
DimensionsImage (a): 16 × 22 1/2 in. (40.6 × 57.2 cm)
Image (b): 16 3/16 × 23 15/16 in. (41.1 × 60.8 cm)
Mat (a): 27 7/8 × 36 in. (70.8 × 91.4 cm)
Mat (b): 27 7/8 × 35 15/16 in. (70.8 × 91.3 cm)
Image (b): 16 3/16 × 23 15/16 in. (41.1 × 60.8 cm)
Mat (a): 27 7/8 × 36 in. (70.8 × 91.4 cm)
Mat (b): 27 7/8 × 35 15/16 in. (70.8 × 91.3 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of John Robertshaw III, 2014
Object number2014.7.2ab
DescriptionTwo views of the Rio Grande river surrounded by high canyons of rock, one at night is almost all black and the other in daytime.eMuseum Notes
Cooper has a particular passion for photographing rivers and other major bodies of water, with a special interest in the places where earth and water meet. His series “Rio Grande River Crossings,” of which this piece is a part, was created over a seven-year period along the 2,000-mile course of the river, from its headwaters in Colorado to its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico. These two pictures, shot in Big Bend National Park in Texas, have a powerful, elemental quality, encompassing past and present, night and day, water and rock, black and white.
On View
Not on view
Ansel Adams
1932 (printed 1980)
