Wales (Dry Stone Wall and Trees)

Joe Low

Black and white photograph

1977

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  • About the work
    Location
    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.

  • 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.
  • Explore
    Places
    Wales
    Subjects
    topography, landscape C20th, tree, hill, stone/rock, stone wall, fence, path
    Materials & Techniques
    photograph (as object name), black & white photograph
  • Details
    Artist
    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