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Bruce Weber — Rob and Little Bear at Entrance to Bear Pond, Adirondacks, NY
Bruce Weber — Rob and Little Bear at Entrance to Bear Pond, Adirondacks, NY
Bruce Weber — Rob and Little Bear at Entrance to Bear Pond, Adirondacks, NY
Bruce Weber

Rob and Little Bear at Entrance to Bear Pond, Adirondacks, NY

1989

This gelatin silver print captures a quietly monumental moment at the threshold of wilderness, two figures paused at the entrance to Bear Pond in the Adirondacks as though suspended between the inhabited world and something older and untamed. Weber's composition holds the human and the animal in a relationship of easy intimacy, the kind that takes years to earn and only a fraction of a second to photograph. The tonal range of the print is characteristically rich, with deep shadows folding into soft midtones that give the image both physical weight and a dreamy, elegiac quality Weber had already made his signature by the late 1980s. Weber has long operated at the intersection of fashion, fine art, and personal mythology, and this 1989 work belongs to a body of photographs rooted in his sustained engagement with the American landscape and the people and animals who inhabit it on their own terms. The Adirondacks setting carries genuine biographical resonance for the artist, lending the image an authenticity that separates it from staged sentiment. The subject, Rob, and his canine companion are rendered without artifice, their presence at once specific and universal, evoking a pastoral American ideal that Weber neither romanticizes naively nor undercuts with irony. Printed as a gelatin silver print in an edition of ten and signed by the artist, this framed work is offered through CLAMP and presents a meaningful opportunity to acquire a piece from one of Weber's most personally charged periods of production. The modest dimensions, 35.6 by 27.9 centimeters, belie the considerable presence the image commands in person, where the luminosity of the silver print surface rewards close looking and sustained attention.

Medium
Gelatin silver print
Overall
Framed
Signed
Yes
Location
CLAMP, New York, NY

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Bruce Weber, Rob and Little Bear at Entrance to Bear Pond, Adirondacks, NY, 1989

This gelatin silver print captures a quietly monumental moment at the threshold of wilderness, two figures paused at the entrance to Bear Pond in the Adirondacks as though suspended between the inhabited world and something older and untamed. Weber's composition holds the human and the animal in a relationship of easy intimacy, the kind that takes years to earn and only a fraction of a second to photograph. The tonal range of the print is characteristically rich, with deep shadows folding into soft midtones that give the image both physical weight and a dreamy, elegiac quality Weber had already made his signature by the late 1980s. Weber has long operated at the intersection of fashion, fine art, and personal mythology, and this 1989 work belongs to a body of photographs rooted in his sustained engagement with the American landscape and the people and animals who inhabit it on their own terms. The Adirondacks setting carries genuine biographical resonance for the artist, lending the image an authenticity that separates it from staged sentiment. The subject, Rob, and his canine companion are rendered without artifice, their presence at once specific and universal, evoking a pastoral American ideal that Weber neither romanticizes naively nor undercuts with irony. Printed as a gelatin silver print in an edition of ten and signed by the artist, this framed work is offered through CLAMP and presents a meaningful opportunity to acquire a piece from one of Weber's most personally charged periods of production. The modest dimensions, 35.6 by 27.9 centimeters, belie the considerable presence the image commands in person, where the luminosity of the silver print surface rewards close looking and sustained attention.

Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
overall: 35.6 x 27.9 cm • framed: 48.9 x 41.3 cm
Year
1989
Edition
of 10
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
CLAMP, New York, NY

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