The Tetons and the Snake River, Wyoming

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The Tetons and the Snake River, Wyoming

Artist Howard Bond (American, born 1931)

Date1980

DimensionsImage: 47 5/8 × 58 7/8 in. (121 × 149.6 cm)
Mount: 66 1/16 × 81 3/4 in. (167.7 × 207.7 cm)

Mediumgelatin silver print

ClassificationPhotographs

Credit LineGift of the artist

Object number

2012.129

Not on View

DescriptionBlack and white gelatin-silver print of a western landscape.

Label TextThis dramatic landscape view shows the Snake River in Wyoming cutting through a stand of aspens and pines as it reflects the light of the cloud-filled sky. The sharp peaks of the Teton Range, standing nearly 7,000 feet above the valley floor, are partially obscured by a slight mist and the low-lying clouds in the background. Toledo native Howard Bond’s keen eye for detail and composition have made him one of the best contemporary black and white photographers working in the grand tradition of Carleton Watkins (1829–1916) and Ansel Adams (1902–1984). Bond began taking photographs in 1945 when he was 14 years old. His interest never waned even as he pursued advanced degrees in music and mathematics. After years of study with masters of 20th-century photography, including Ansel Adams and Imogen Cunningham, Bond devoted himself fulltime to photography in 1979.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, The American West: Photographs of a New Frontier, January 15-May 15, 2016.