Amber Reading, Rock Cove, Wasco County, Oregon
- Title
- Amber Reading, Rock Cove, Wasco County, Oregon
- LC Subject
- Photography, Artistic Photography Landscape photography Outdoor photography Nature photography Photography of water art photography black-and-white photography gelatin silver prints photography (discipline) nature photography
- Creator
- Toedtemeier, Terry
- Description
- This is a long rectangular black and white photograph featuring a rocky foreground. There is a human figure that may be reading a book. He or she is sitting down to the right of the large rocks and looks very small compared to the rock size. The perspective of the image looks out beyond the reader, across the water, and towards the background hills. The rock formations and the hills are divided by a river or lake. Amber Reading The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is Mid-Valley Arts. You may view their website at http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
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- full
- Location
- Department of State Lands >> Marion County >> Oregon >> United States Marion County >> Oregon >> United States
- Street Address
- 775 Summer St. N.E., Salem Oregon
- Award Date
- 1987
- Identifier
- 1990_salem_state-lands-bldg_11_d01
- Item Locator
- TOE: 90-23
- Accession Number
- 1990_salem_state-lands-bldg_11_d01
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- Toedtemeier, Terry
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- 8 3/4 x 18 1/2 inches
- Material
- Photography b&w gelatin silver print
- Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Primary Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Relation
- 1990 State Lands Building Salem Oregon 1990_salem_state-lands-bldg
- Has Version
- slide; color
- Institution
- Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
- Color Space
- RGB
- Biographical Information
- The Columbia River Gorge is a unique geologic environment and a place that has been of primary importance to humans in the region for well over 100 centuries. The only near-sea-level passage through the Cascade Mountains, the Gorge is in part the result of catastrophic floods dating from the close of the Ice Age. These floods, often called the Bretz floods after the geologist J. Harlan Bretz, who first hypothesized their existence, scoured the ancestral valley walls of the Coloumbia to produce the myriad basalt cliffs, promontories, and waterfalls one finds today. Left exposed in stone is a story of tremendous volcanic outpourings and the formative mechanics of the Cascade Mountains. As a photographer I have worked to record the beauty of varied natural formations in the Gorge and the many places there than reveal traces of former human activity. The Gorge is like a kind of container of time capsule that has accumulated countless elements of both human and natural history. It is a setting that richly juxtaposes time in human terms with a landscape millions of years in the making. (OAC documentation)
