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Two Photographers, Santa Fe, N.M.

Two Photographers, Santa Fe, N.M.

Arthur Tress
American, born 1940
1979
A gelatin silver print photograph that shows two large-format photographers facing each other on a dusty Santa Fe road, with the maker exposing the ritual and physicality of making photographs.
Seen from a low angle and backlit by the sun, the image arrests you with two shrouded figures hunched under dark cloths, tripod legs crossing like a deliberate gesture and long shadows stretching across the rough ground.
By documenting photographers at work, the picture turns the camera on its own process, revealing the choreography and material demands of analogue photography and reflecting a late‑20th‑century self‑reflexive approach to documentary practice.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
7 1/2 × 7 1/2" (19.1 × 19.1 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of David Knaus
Accession
671.2022
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