Monroe County, Alabama, May 2010, by Carol M. Highsmith, via The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The infrared treatment of the late spring scene gives it a wintery appearance.
Highsmith has specialized in photographing America’s architectural heritage. She has donated the rights to her work to the Library of Congress for copyright free access for all.
“Children swinging on maypole, La Forge, Missouri. Project school at Southeast Missouri Farms,” August 1938, by Russell Lee, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
A photochrom taken c. 1902, by Detroit Photographic Co., via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Why is any cow, red, black or white, always in just the right place for a picture in any landscape? Like a cypress tree in Italy, she is never wrongly placed. Her outlines quiet down so well into whatever contours surround her. A group of her in the landscape is enchantment.
— Frank Lloyd Wright, from his autobiography
The guides at Taliesin will tell you that Wright strongly preferred buff-colored and brown cows to black and white ones.
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