The Painter's Pool
Photograph
25 January 2004 (made)
25 January 2004 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Jem Southam (born Bristol 1950) is renowned for his series of colour landscape photographs, beginning in the 1970s and continuing until the present. His trademark is the patient observation of changes at a single location over many months or years.
Southam's subjects are predominately situated in the south west of England where he lives and works. He observes the balance between nature and man's intervention and traces cycles of decay and renewal. His work combines topographical observation with other references: personal, cultural, political, scientific, literary and psychological. Southam’s working method combines the predetermined and the intuitive. Seen together, his series suggest the forging of pathways towards visual and intellectual resolution.
Southam uses a large format camera to produce 8 x 10 inch (20.5 x 25.5 cm) negatives that record a high level of detail. C-type prints are made from these. When the pictures are enlarged from the negatives they reveal an entrancing wealth of information.
'The Painter’s Pool' was inspired by a fellow artist who constructed the pool and painted there, and demostrates Southam's sustained and detailed observations made with acute sensitivity to particular places.
Southam's subjects are predominately situated in the south west of England where he lives and works. He observes the balance between nature and man's intervention and traces cycles of decay and renewal. His work combines topographical observation with other references: personal, cultural, political, scientific, literary and psychological. Southam’s working method combines the predetermined and the intuitive. Seen together, his series suggest the forging of pathways towards visual and intellectual resolution.
Southam uses a large format camera to produce 8 x 10 inch (20.5 x 25.5 cm) negatives that record a high level of detail. C-type prints are made from these. When the pictures are enlarged from the negatives they reveal an entrancing wealth of information.
'The Painter’s Pool' was inspired by a fellow artist who constructed the pool and painted there, and demostrates Southam's sustained and detailed observations made with acute sensitivity to particular places.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Title | The Painter's Pool (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | C-type print |
| Brief description | Photograph by Jem Southam, 'The Painter's Pool', 25 January 2004, C-type print |
| Physical description | Photograph by Jem Southam of a pond surrounded by trees |
| Dimensions |
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| Credit line | Purchased through funds generously donated by Pierre Brahm |
| Summary | Jem Southam (born Bristol 1950) is renowned for his series of colour landscape photographs, beginning in the 1970s and continuing until the present. His trademark is the patient observation of changes at a single location over many months or years. Southam's subjects are predominately situated in the south west of England where he lives and works. He observes the balance between nature and man's intervention and traces cycles of decay and renewal. His work combines topographical observation with other references: personal, cultural, political, scientific, literary and psychological. Southam’s working method combines the predetermined and the intuitive. Seen together, his series suggest the forging of pathways towards visual and intellectual resolution. Southam uses a large format camera to produce 8 x 10 inch (20.5 x 25.5 cm) negatives that record a high level of detail. C-type prints are made from these. When the pictures are enlarged from the negatives they reveal an entrancing wealth of information. 'The Painter’s Pool' was inspired by a fellow artist who constructed the pool and painted there, and demostrates Southam's sustained and detailed observations made with acute sensitivity to particular places. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.2563-2007 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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