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Artist |
Langham, Robert |
Caption |
Creekside, Winter, 2008 |
Collection |
TMA |
Credit Line |
Gift of the Artist |
Date |
2008 |
Description |
Photograph of a forested plot of land with a stream. A small piece of land sticks out and lowers into the stream, which curves around it and flows from the lower register of the piece upward, disappearing behind the small piece of land. A thick lines of trees fills the background and covers most of the sky, and other trees have fallen or leaned over, crossing diagonally across the piece and over the stream. 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-17 W-24 inches |
Medium |
Enhanced matte print/Color photograph |
Catalog Number |
2010.03.25 |
Title |
Creekside, Winter, 2008 |