Cottonwood Lake, Wasatch Mountains, Utah
Artist
Timothy H. O'Sullivan
(American, born Ireland, 1840 - 1882)
Date1869
MediumAlbumen print
DimensionsOverall: 7 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches (19.69 x 26.67 cm)
Mat (exhibition): 20 × 24 inches (50.8 × 60.96 cm)
Framed: 23 3/8 × 27 1/2 × 1 5/8 inches (59.37 × 69.85 × 4.13 cm)
Mat (exhibition): 20 × 24 inches (50.8 × 60.96 cm)
Framed: 23 3/8 × 27 1/2 × 1 5/8 inches (59.37 × 69.85 × 4.13 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.3280
InscribedNumbered
"92"
On Print
[in white]
Numbered
"92"
On Mount
Pencil
On View
Not on viewCollections
Terms
Timothy H. O’Sullivan: The King Survey Photographs. The Art Institute of Chicago, October 22, 2011 - January 15, 2012, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 7 - September 2, 2012, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, UT, January 23 - May 26, 2014, no. 10.
This image exemplifies O'Sullivan's self-reflexive genius. Close examination of this photograph suggests that the man in the boat-possibly O'Sullivan's companion, Salt Lake City photographer Charles Savage-is contemplating a freshly processed glass-plate negative of the scene behind him. The result is a fascinating meditation on the act of "photographic seeing" itself-an appreciation, at once, of the majestic original scene and the allure of the photographic representation.
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