Untitled (River, Hong Kong or Macau, China)
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
image: 21.9 × 27.9 cm · mounted: 26.8 × 34.1 cm
Classification
Photograph
Department
Photography
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Sundry Art - Photography Fund
Accession Number
2020.235
Tags
male
About this artwork
A young art form, photography had not yet fully developed its own visual traditions when William Pryor Floyd was working, so he often borrowed compositional formats from classical landscape painting. Here, he instead daringly placed the stream right in the middle of this composition. It wends its way in gentle S curves into the distance, drawing the viewer’s eye up and across the picture plane, until it disappears into distant trees.