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wright morris (1910-1988)
Grand Canyon, Arizona, vers 1938
Épreuve argentique d’époque, anntations au dos, 213x194 mm
Ferrotyped gelatin silver print, annotated, from Mary Ellen Morris
Collection. «Wright Morris took his photographs during very short and
scattered periods of time, between 1936 and 1954. He bought his first view
camera in 1938, “At this time we moved from California to Cape Cod and the
car trip was an eye-opener. I saw the American landscape crowded with ruins
I wanted to salvage. The depression created a world of objects toward which I
felt affectionate and possessive. I ran a high fever of enthusiasm, and believed
myself chosen to record this history, before it was gone» (Carnets)
wright morris (1910-1998)
Amérique, années 1940
Épreuve argentique d’époque, 207x250 mm, titrée au crayon au dos
pour le livre «the Inhabitants»
Gelatin silver print, annotated, from Mary Ellen Morris Collection
“After many months of writing, it occured to me that it might be possible to pho-
tograph, in the flesh, what I was attempting to capture in words. I bought a
Rolleiflex camera and began to take pictures of objects or structures that were
used and abused by human hands” (quot.)
wright morris (1910-1998)
Ruins of Indian Dwellings, Wupatki, New Mexico, 1938
Épreuve argentique, date, titre et signée au dos, 214x185 mm
Ferrotyped gelatin silver print, title, date, annotated, from Mary Ellen
Morris Collection
«Adobe walls and textures, patterns of light and shadow, the dominance of the
past in all aspects of the present, the palpable sense of time as a presence, made
me more fully aware of what I was seeking in the transcient ruins of my own
culture. I wanted evidence of man in the artifacts that revealed his passing.”
(W.M.)