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Artist |
Langham, Robert |
Caption |
Moonset, Shiprock, N.M. |
Collection |
TMA |
Credit Line |
Gift of the Artist 2005.04.8 |
Culture |
American |
Date |
2001 (printed 2004) |
Description |
Black and white photograph of Shiprock monadnock as the moon sets. The moon hangs over the imposing structure of Shiprock. The picture seems to be taken from afar given that the whole face of Shiprock is seen. The sky is extremely cloudy. Half the structure seems shrouded in darkness as the moon sets and the sun rises. Artist Robert Langham is a naturalist and environmentalist. Langham's hometown Tyler is in the Blackfork Creek watershed, high in the Neches River drainage. His Blackfork Bestiary series is a portfolio of live animals and insects from this Blackfork Creek ecosystem. The animals and insects he photographs are then safely released back into nature. In Langham's still-life work, he creates what he refers to as a "kinetic still life". He reinterprets what we think of as a traditional still life with movement and fiction done in camera without post-processing trickery. Langham's work is deeply rooted in a sense of place, reaching deep into the Texan psyche to explore the whimsy and endless possibilities that the open expanses of the Southwestern landscape have inspired, and continue to inspire, within imagination. |
Dimensions |
H-26 W-33 inches |
Medium |
Enhanced matte paper print |
Material |
Enhanced matte paper print, printed on an Epson Stylus Pro 4000 printer |
Catalog Number |
2005.04.04 |
Title |
Moonset, Shiprock, N.M. |