Snow Bird (Ritual Hieroglyph), Stanton Moor, Derbyshire, England
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 11.75 × 16.83 cm (4 5/8 × 6 5/8 in.) mount: 27.62 × 35.4 cm (10 7/8 × 13 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of the artist)
Accession Number
2015.19.4241
Art Historical Context
**Snow Bird (Ritual Hieroglyph), Stanton Moor, Derbyshire, England** *Thomas Joshua Cooper, 1977, gelatin silver print* Captured in 1977 on the ancient moorlands of Stanton Moor in Derbyshire, England, Thomas Joshua Cooper's *Snow Bird (Ritual Hieroglyph)* invites viewers into a poetic dialogue between nature and human history. This intimate gelatin silver print, measuring just 11.75 × 16.83 cm, depicts what the artist titles a "ritual hieroglyph"—likely an evocative rock formation or prehistoric marking evoking a bird in the snow. Stanton Moor, dotted with Bronze Age stone circles and cu...