The Llamos, Colombia. Survey Party. Douglas Eliot, Tropical Oil geologist, making reconnaissance observations from the crest of the Charte Anticline.
| Artist | John Collier Jr. (American, 1913–1992) |
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| Title | The Llamos, Colombia. Survey Party. Douglas Eliot, Tropical Oil geologist, making reconnaissance observations from the crest of the Charte Anticline. |
| Date | November 1946 |
| Medium | Gelatin silver print |
| Dimensions | Image: 6 7/16 × 9 3/16 in. (16.3 × 23.3 cm) |
| Credit Line | Henry Holmes Smith Archive, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University |
| Accession Number | 79.200.XX.16.3 |
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A horizontal black-and-white photograph depicts an adult, light-skinned man in adventuring attire sitting on a rocky outcropping looking through a pair of binoculars. The man occupies the right foreground of the image, the rest of the composition is comprised of an expansive landscape of scrubland.
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