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The subtle, large format prints (5 x 6 ft approx.) allow the viewer to contemplate details that reveal the photographers' intimacy and familiarity with the subject.  This piece is one of the most representative of his works.  \r\n\r\nA c-type print, such as Ektachrome, is a colour print in which the print material has at least three emulsion layers of light sensitive silver salts. Each layer is sensitised to a different primary colour - either red, blue or green - and so records different information about the colour make-up of the image. During printing, chemicals are added which form dyes of the appropriate colour in the emulsion layers. 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I've never been interested in landscapes in the sense of nature. These are working landscapes, but behind all that are answers like why we are here, what we are doing and what we are here for. These answers are in the pictures. Ultimately I hope each picture will contain everything\". \r\n\r\nGerhard Stromberg 1998","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null}},{"text":"Gerhard Stomberg studied at the Düsseldorf Academy before moving to England from 1986 until 2004. Living and working in Suffolk he utilized grey skies and flattened perspective to create his personal and elegiac observation of the English landscape. Here, the screen of trees in the background gives way to a foreground of stumps created by coppicing. Though the scene looks brutal, coppicing is in fact an ancient art of woodland management that promotes new growth, longevity of trees  and a sustainable supply of timber for future generations. Stromberg's image captures the poignancy of the process with elegant simplicity and hints at wider themes of the cycle of nature and man's position within it.","date":{"text":"11/09/2007-28/06/2008","earliest":"2007-09-11","latest":"2008-06-28"}}],"partNumbers":["E.585-2001"],"accessionNumberNum":"585","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":2001,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-12-05","recordCreationDate":"2001-08-23","availableToBook":false}}