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| Benjamin Brecknell Turner The Church Oak, Hawkhurst ca. 1852-54 albumen print Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| William Craven, 2nd Earl of Craven Study of an Ancient Oak Tree, Ashdown Park, Berkshire ca. 1854 albumen print Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Charles Thurston Thompson Oak, Albury Park, Surrey ca. 1857-58 albumen print Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| James Sinclair and William Bainbridge Queen Anne's Oak 1864 albumen silver print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Edward L. Allen Old Elm Tree, Boston Common ca. 1865 albumen silver prints (stereograph) Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Anonymous British Photographer Massive Tree 19th century hand-colored albumen silver prints (stereograph) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Magnus Jackson Ancient Tree with Seated Group ca. 1870-80 albumen print Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Eugène Atget Environs of Paris ca. 1923-24 gelatin silver print (printed by Berenice Abbott) Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Albert Renger-Patzsch Tree ca. 1930 gelatin silver print Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Albert Winslow Barker The Forgotten Tree 1933 lithograph Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Vilem Kriz Untitled 1947 gelatin silver print Denver Art Museum |
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| Donna Theresa Miehl Dead Tree before 1956 drawing Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
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| Ryohei Tanaka Winter Tree before 1969 etching Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
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| Joel Snyder Burr Oak, Lisle, Illinois 1971 platinum print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| William Christenberry Pear Tree near Akron, Alabama 2000 C-print Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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| Tacita Dean Majesty 2006 mounted photograph with added gouache Tate Gallery |
from Praying Drunk
Next, confession – the dreary part. At night
deer drift from the dark woods and eat my garden.
They're like enormous rats on stilts except,
of course, they're beautiful. But why? What makes
them beautiful? I haven't shot one yet.
I might.
* * *
Our Father, thank you for all the birds and trees,
that nature stuff. I'm grateful for good health,
food, air, some laughs, and all the other things
I'm grateful that I've never had to do
without. I have confused myself. I'm glad
there's not a rattrap large enough for deer.
– Andrew Hudgins (1991)