Sunset, Brandon Beach, OR by Don Kirby
- Title: Sunset, Brandon Beach, OR
- Artist: Don Kirby
- Medium: Archival pigment print
- Size: 18"h x 20"w
- Creation date: 2014
- Added to collection: 2019
- Donor: Gift of Don Kirby and Bill Rhoades
- Campus: Rock Creek
- Location: B2/2 Math Division office rm 210H
Ansel Adams famously said that the photographic negative is like a composer's score, and the print a performance. This axiom well describes Adams' influence on the work of Don Kirby, whose masterful printing technique emphasizes a strong graphic impact, meticulous texture, and poetic sensitivity. Here the rocks at Bandon, OR merge from the distance in arial perspective until the nearest looms with graphic clarity on a section of reflected sky like a fallen meteorite.