Landschap Le Chaos in de Auvergne by Delizy

Landschap Le Chaos in de Auvergne 1902

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photography, gelatin-silver-print

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landscape

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nature

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photography

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mountain

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gelatin-silver-print

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nature

Dimensions: height 69 mm, width 82 mm

Copyright: Rijks Museum: Open Domain

Delizy made this photograph, "Landschap Le Chaos in de Auvergne" using a camera and photographic materials, sometime in the past. There’s a softness to this image, like the way memories fade at the edges. The tones are muted, almost monochromatic, a dance of browns and grays that makes you feel like you're looking through a sepia-tinted lens of history. Notice how the light catches the edges of the rocks, how the textures seem to blend and blur. It’s not about sharp focus, but about feeling the weight of the stones, the density of the landscape. And it reminds me of the work of Gustave Courbet, who was also interested in depicting the landscape in a realistic way. In both cases, the artists seem to be trying to capture the essence of a place, rather than simply creating a pretty picture.

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