Wales (Dry Stone Wall and Trees)
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About the work
- Location
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Country: UK
City: London
Place: Department for Transport, Great Minster House, Marsham Street
This small black and white photograph has an unusual portrait, or vertical, composition that emphasises the steep, uneven rise of the hill and the rickety wire and post fence that traces the line of the path up to the crossing stile. The manmade layers of the dry stone wall, which bisects the picture, mirror the natural stratifications in the areas of bare rock that have been uncovered in this weathered landscape. The photographer Joe Low has created an image that vividly contrasts areas of light and shade, particularly between the tops of the trees and the pale sky in the top section of the photograph, creating a halo-like light above the horizon line that conveys the beauty and drama of this landscape.
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About the artist
Joe Low is a photographer based in Southampton, UK. This photograph was purchased by the Government Art Collection from his exhibition at the Photographic Gallery at Southampton University in 1978.
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Explore
- Places
- Wales
- Subjects
- topography, landscape C20th, tree, hill, stone/rock, stone wall, fence, path
- Materials & Techniques
- photograph (as object name), black & white photograph
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Details
- Artist
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Joe Low
- Title
- Wales (Dry Stone Wall and Trees)
- Date
- 1977
- Medium
- Black and white photograph
- Dimensions
- height: 12.00 cm, width: 8.40 cm
- Acquisition
- Purchased from the Photographic Gallery, Southampton University, February 1978
- Inscription
- below image on secondary support: WALES 1977 / Joe Low
- GAC number
- 13684