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A black and white photograph of a landscape with an Oak tree in the left foreground with the br…
Live Oak and Pond
A black and white photograph of a landscape with an Oak tree in the left foreground with the br…
A black and white photograph of a landscape with an Oak tree in the left foreground with the branches of the tree hanging over a body of water.
Live Oak and Pond, Jack Leigh, 1999, gelatin silver print, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, © Jack Leigh Collection.

Live Oak and Pond

Artist (American, 1948 - 2004)
Date1999
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 13 15/16 × 18 1/16 inches (35.4 × 45.9 cm)
Sheet: 15 5/8 × 19 5/8 inches (39.7 × 49.8 cm)
Matted: 22 × 28 inches (55.9 × 71.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Robert O. Levitt.
Object number2003.6
On View
Not on view
Copyright© Jack Leigh Collection. The images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws.Label TextLive Oak and Pond is one of two key photographs Leigh made of the pools in Greenwich Park at Greenwich Cemetery, adjacent to Bonaventure. Leigh chose Live Oak and Pond, as the cover image for his 2000 book “The Land I’m Bound To,” a retrospective volume of the artist’s key Southern images. This moody photograph in subtle gradations of black and white suggests a mysterious Southern landscape with a hidden history. As author Pat Conroy states of Leigh in the book’s foreword, “He cannot raise his camera without telling me about a South I never knew was there."
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