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Untitled (organic form, black on grey)

Untitled (organic form, black on grey)
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Untitled (organic form, black on grey)
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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
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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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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