Untitled No. 5
Photograph
2005 (photographed)
2005 (photographed)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Mark Edwards works with a 10 x 8-inch plate camera that brings out an intense level of detail in his studies of landscapes, quietly overwhelming the eye. His photographs suggest an underlying order within what first appears to be a chaos of tangled branches or undergrowth. This image of a motorway verge with a completely leafless spray of criss-crossing branches creates a hypnotic grid of marks that almost seem to be painterly gestures.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Title | Untitled No. 5 (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | C-print |
| Brief description | Colour photograph by Mark Edwards, 'Untitled No. 5', C-print, 2005, part of a diptych |
| Physical description | Photograph of a motorway verge with completely leafless spray of crisscrossing branches. |
| Dimensions |
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| Production type | Limited edition |
| Copy number | 1/3 |
| Gallery label | Edwards makes his detailed photographs with an 8 x 10 inch plate camera, using ladders to achieve an elevated perspective. His subjects are prosaic landscapes that ‘exhibit a sense of both longing and indifference’.
Edwards travelled regularly over this same stretch of motorway, gradually becoming aware of the roadside embankments. He learnt that the Highways Agency is the largest planter of trees after the Forestry Commission and began to find these landscapes increasingly compelling. The repetition of the tangled branches suggests the passage of time. The formal flatness and the colour of the images in the diptych lend the subject a meditative stillness.(19/03/2012) |
| Credit line | Purchased through the Cecil Beaton Fund. Copyright Mark Edwards |
| Production | diptych |
| Subject depicted | |
| Summary | Mark Edwards works with a 10 x 8-inch plate camera that brings out an intense level of detail in his studies of landscapes, quietly overwhelming the eye. His photographs suggest an underlying order within what first appears to be a chaos of tangled branches or undergrowth. This image of a motorway verge with a completely leafless spray of criss-crossing branches creates a hypnotic grid of marks that almost seem to be painterly gestures. |
| Associated object | E.398:1-2005 (Part) |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.398:1-2005 |
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| Record created | March 21, 2012 |
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