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NICK BRANDT (B. 1966)
Elephant Five, Amboseli, 2008
signed, numbered and dated '18/25 Nick Brandt 2008' (lower edge)
archival pigment print
image: 18 ¾ x 28 ¼ in. (47.6 x 71.8 cm.)
sheet: 22 x 30 ¼ in. (55.9 x 76.8 cm.)
Executed in 2008. This work is number eighteen from an edition of twenty-five plus three artist's proofs.
Provenance
Private collection
Anon. sale; Artcurial, Paris, 14 November 2014, lot 102
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Literature
N. Brandt, On this Earth, A Shadow Falls, New York, 2012, pp. 101 and 184 (another example illustrated).
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Nick Brandt's photography has long focused on African wildlife and the disappearance of their natural habitat. Brandt's large-scale black and white photographs capture the majesty and act as a testament to the quickly diminishing population of the animals that roam Tanzania and Kenya. In the present lot, Brandt lens points up at five massive elephants roaming a barren landscape - a landscape that might suggest the key threat to elephants today: habitat loss.

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