St. Gabriel, Louisiana
October 26, 2000
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print on aluminum
Dimensions
image/plate: 12.7 × 10.1 cm (5 × 4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Julia J. Norrell, in Honor of Claude Simard and the 25th Anniversary of Photography at the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
2014.177.202
Art Historical Context
Deborah Luster's *St. Gabriel, Louisiana (October 26, 2000) invites viewers into the evocative landscapes of the American South through a compact gelatin silver print on aluminum, just 5 × 4 inches. This intimate scale draws the eye close, emphasizing fine details captured in traditional darkroom chemistry—gelatin silver's rich tonal range and subtle gradations—while the aluminum mounting lends a sleek, modern durability and subtle sheen, bridging analog craft with contemporary display. Created at the turn of the millennium, the photograph documents a specific place and moment in Louisiana, a...
About the Artist
Deborah Luster
Deborah Luster, born in 1951 in Bend, Oregon, grew up in Northwest Arkansas and later made her home in New Orleans, Louisiana, with additional time spent in Galway, Ireland. Her path to photography was profoundly shaped by personal tragedy: the 1988 murder of her mother, which prompted her to take up the medium as a means of processing grief and exploring violence's aftermath. Luster attended the ...