Apeiron, Millerton, New York, Terry Evans

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Terry Evans, Apeiron, Millerton, New York
Terry Evans, Apeiron, Millerton, New York
Terry Evans
Apeiron, Millerton, New York
1978
Terry Evans
born 1944
Apeiron, Millerton, New York, 1978
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 35.2 x 35.2 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 13 7/8 x 13 7/8 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 25 x 20 in
Credit line: Gift of Terry Evans
Accession number: 1980.0148
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Archive Label 2003: Terry Evans began making photographs of the prairie when asked by The Land Institute, a Kansas agricultural research center, to document its scientific study of the prairie. That work involved shooting color-slide film directly over meter-square sections of prairie grass marked by roped-off grids. Evans found the great variety of vegetation, no longer homogenous prairie to her, interesting and began her own black-and-white series as a consideration of the pictorial possibilities of the controlled, documentary method employed in the Land Institute work. Her initial black-and-white photographs in the series capture the subtle variations of surface and line without the distractions of color. The flattened-out picture space emphasizes the natural designs of the interwoven grasses. The photograph here and the other black-and-white photographs in the series have an abstract quality, yet still provide direct factual information.