Emerging, Submerging, Emerging, Antrim County, Noord-Ierland
1986 · gelatin silver print on glass, photographic support, wood (plant material)
depth: 3 cm, width: 578 cm, width: 98.9 cm, height: 412 cm, height: 78.6 cm
Rijksmuseum
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Thomas Joshua Cooper
American, 1946
San Francisco, CA, USA
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Thomas Joshua Cooper is an American photographer whose work centers on landscape, water, and the edge conditions between land and sea. Working primarily in black and white, he has spent decades photographing remote coastlines, glacial formations, and tidal zones across the northern hemisphere, approaching each location with sustained attention to geological time and atmospheric particularity. His photographs emphasize the formal and philosophical properties of place rather than documentation, treating the camera as a tool for philosophical inquiry into human presence within vast natural systems.
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