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Ferry, Chongqing

ca. 1980
20th century
10 7/8 in. x 14 in. (27.62 cm x 35.56 cm)

Eliot Furness Porter, American, (1901–1990)

Object Type: Photographs

Creation Place: North America, United States

Medium and Support: Gelatin silver print on paper

Credit Line: Carleton College Art Collection, gift of Arthur D. Kowaloff, class of 1968

Accession Number: 1997.004.02

This is a luscious-colored photograph of a ferry in a very dirty river. Part of a portfolio form the early 1980s, this image employs an overhead view for a more abstracted composition.

Eliot Porter is probably best known as a nature photographer—he was, along with Ansel Adams, a primary contributor to early Sierra Club calendars and coffee-table books. Porter also was a great traveler. He journeyed to the great scenic sites of America and was among the first artists to receive National Science Foundation sponsorship to visit Antarctica. For this portfolio, Porter traveled around China as an elderly fellow—he was nearly 80 on this trip and accompanied by his son, Jonathan Porter, a professor of Chinese history at the University of New Mexico.

- Laurel Bradley, Carleton College Calendar, 2005

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20th Century, 21st Century, American*, Contemporary*, gelatin silver prints*, gelatin silver process*, paper (fiber product)*, photographic paper*, photographs*, portfolios (groups of works)*

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American - Refers to the context of or associated specifically with the modern political entity of the United States of America.
Contemporary - Refers to painting, sculpture, graphic arts, and architecture dating from the recent past and present. It differs from modern art in that the term 'contemporary art' does not carry the implication of a non-traditional style, but instead refers only to the time period in which the work was created. 'Modern' and 'contemporary' are inherently fluid terms. The term 'contemporary' is sometimes more narrowly used to refer to art from ca. 1960 or 1970 up to the present.
gelatin silver prints - Refers to photographic prints having gelatin as the binder, holding silver as the final image material; always black-and-white, though they may be toned to a monochrome hue.
gelatin silver process - Refers to any of several photographic processes that use gelatin as the binder and silver as the final image material. Most commonly used on a paper support for prints, but may employ a glass plate (in which case use "gelatin dry plate process") or film as the support.
paper (fiber product) - Refers generally to all types of matted or felted sheets or webs of fiber formed and dried on a fine screen from a pulpy water suspension. The fibers may be animal, such as hair, silk or wool, or mineral, such as asbestos, or synthetic. However most paper is made from cellulosic plant fiber, such as from wood pulp, grass, cotton, linen, and straw.
photographic paper - Paper used for making photographic prints that consists of a base material with a white or near-white surface that is coated with one or more emulsion layers. It is typically a high grade of paper traditionally made from 100% cotton or linen rags, because lignin and other residues in other paper would react with the photosensitive salts and destroy the image. Photographic paper is strong, uniform, and dimensionally stable when wet and dry. For increased wet-strength, the papers are sized with animal glue, starch, stearic acid, or synthetic resins, such as melamine (used since 1948). One or more fillers, such as barium sulfate, titanium dioxide, clay, starch, or polyacrylamide, are also added for opacity, color, and strength. The papers were calendered to produce a smooth, nonporous surface. Since the late 1960s, most color photographic papers have been made from cellulose fibers coated on both sides with polyethylene.
photographs - Refers to still images produced from radiation-sensitive materials (sensitive to light, electron beams, or nuclear radiation), generally by means of the chemical action of light on a sensitive film, paper, glass, or metal. It does not include reproductive prints of documents and technical drawings, for which descriptors found under "" are more appropriate. Photographs may be positive or negative, opaque or transparent.
portfolios (groups of works) - Groups of works brought together such as to exemplify the work of an artist or student. Also, groups of art works or other visual materials (often by one artist) such as photographs or prints, issued or housed together in a portfolio; they often include a loose title page or text introduction.

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