{ "data": { "id": 447653, "accession_number": "2021.196", "share_license_status": "Copyrighted", "tombstone": "Cuyahoga Valley National Park: Along Brandywine Falls, 2005. Geoffrey James (British, 1942-). Gelatin silver print; image: 20.2 x 49.2 cm (7 15/16 x 19 3/8 in.); paper: 30.3 x 50.3 cm (11 15/16 x 19 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the George Gund Foundation Collection in Honor of David Bergholz, 2021.196", "current_location": null, "title": "Along Brandywine Falls", "series": "Cuyahoga Valley National Park", "creation_date": "2005", "creation_date_earliest": 2005, "creation_date_latest": 2005, "artists_tags": [ "male" ], "culture": [ "America" ], "technique": "gelatin silver print", "support_materials": [], "department": "Photography", "collection": "PH - American 1951-Present", "type": "Photograph", "measurements": "Image: 20.2 x 49.2 cm (7 15/16 x 19 3/8 in.); Paper: 30.3 x 50.3 cm (11 15/16 x 19 13/16 in.)", "dimensions": { "image": { "height": 0.202, "width": 0.492 }, "paper": { "height": 0.303, "width": 0.503 } }, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [ { "inscription": "Written in pencil on verso: \u201cBrandywine Falls 2005 A/P Geoffrey James (signed)\u201d", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null } ], "exhibitions": { "current": [], "legacy": [] }, "provenance": [ { "description": "Geoffrey James (the artist) [1942-], Toronto, Ontario, Canada", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "2005", "sortorder": 1 }, { "description": "The George Gund Foundation Collection, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "2005-2021", "sortorder": 2 }, { "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "December 6, 2021", "sortorder": 3 } ], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "The Cuyahoga Valley National Park, which runs between Akron and Cleveland, is land that has been occupied by humans for over 1,200 years.", "description": "In his views of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, landscape photographer Geoffrey James shows us natural beauty, but also reminders of the impact of humans on the land such as fragments of the abandoned locks of the Ohio & Erie Canal and modern bridges. James described the park as \u201ca great democratic open space. . . like no other national park I have seen.\u201d", "external_resources": { "wikidata": [ "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117246968" ], "internet_archive": [] }, "citations": [ { "citation": "George Gund Foundation2005 Annual Report: The Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Cleveland: George Gund Foundation, 2005.", "page_number": "", "url": "https://gundfoundation.org/portfolios/cuyahoga-valley-national-park/" } ], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.196", "images": {}, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "Gift of the George Gund Foundation Collection in Honor of David Bergholz", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 447653, "creators": [ { "id": 509, "description": "Geoffrey James (British, 1942-)", "extent": null, "qualifier": null, "role": "artist", "biography": "Geoffrey James British, b. Wales, 1942- The garden panoramas for which Geoffrey James is best known depict utopian spaces that, since the height of their grandeur in centuries past, have fallen into decay and neglect. He uses a large-format camera fitted with a curved film plane to allow the dramatic curves of his architectural and natural subjects to speak most effectively. The resulting monochromatic panoramas are three times longer than they are high, which allows for multiple vantage points and the play of perspective. James's most obvious historical precedent is Eug\u00e8ne Atget, whose extensive series of Parisian gardens speak with a similar technical vocabulary. James (born in St. Asaph) was educated at Wellington College in Crowthorne, Berkshire, and at Wadham College, Oxford, where he studied modern history (B.A., 1962; M.A., 1964). He taught himself photography in 1965, then moved to Canada, working for several years as contributing editor of Time magazine in Montreal (1967-75), as head of the Visual Arts Section of the Canada Council, Ottawa (1975-82), and on various independent freelance projects. James has also taught at the University of Ottawa (1982-84) and has received a fellowship from the Graham Foundation in Fine Arts (1984) and an artist-in-residency from the Centre International de Recherche de Cr\u00e9ation et d'Animation, Villeneuve-les-Avignon, France (1985). A retrospective of his work, Genius Loci, was organized by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (1986). His publications include Transparent Things: The Artist's Use of Photography (1977), The Legacy of Atget (coauthor, 1977), Visions: Essays on Contemporary Canadian Art (coeditor, 1977), Entrances and Exits (1984), I Giardini Italiani (1985), Genius Loci (1986), and Morbid Symptoms (1987). James lives in Toronto. 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