Untitled (organic form, black on grey)

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Title

Untitled (organic form, black on grey)

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Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This black and white photograph by Gordon Walters was made in the early 1940s at Waikanae. Walters was living and working in Wellington and had met Theo Schoon, an Indonesian-born Dutch artist who was familiar both with photography and modern European art. The photograph was one of a series taken by Walters and Schoon on field trips to Waikanae in 1943 and 1944. The title, with its reference to 'organic form' and tonal values ('black on grey') reveals how nature could be transformed through t...

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Format

Image

Date created

1943-1944

Creator

Gordon Walters

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/568254

Related subjects

Abstract photographs / photographic gelatin / silver / photographic paper / black-and-white prints / gelatin silver prints / black-and-white photographs / works of art / metallic toning / black-and-white photography / Modernist / Waikanae

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