Color print

Museum number:

13-6731

Permalink:

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Alternate number:

13-5866

Accession number:

Acc.4724

Description:

color photographic print; matted "View towards the northwest side of Lake Pátzcuaro; July 20, 1972." [matted at PAHMA for exhibition]

Donor:

George M. Foster

Collection place:

Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán, Mexico

Verbatim coll. place:

Mexico, Michoacan, Tzintzuntzan

Collector:

George M. Foster

Collection date:

July 20, 1972

Materials:

Paper (fiber product)

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Color prints (photographs)

Accession date:

October 11, 2001

Department:

Still and motion photography

Dimensions:

photo— height 35.4 centimeters, matted— width 40.7 centimeters, photo— width 27.8 centimeters, and matted— height 50.8 centimeters

Comment:

To the north and west [of the village] stretches the lake. Beyond rise a series of hills, extinct volcanic cones, which culminate to the north in mighty Zirate, towering more than 1,000 m. above the water. In the morning and evening its head is often capped with fleecy clouds, more suggestive of the Tropics than the cold country. At noon, in the direct light of the sun, it stands out clear and bold. And in the evening the slanting rays of the sun outline its ridges and crevices in perpendicular lines of light and shadow (1948).