AA-2026-BCBAD8
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A patch of green plant leaves, each one meticulously ribbed and slightly fuzzy, performs its assigned task of photosynthesis. It does this with a quiet dedication that suggests it has no idea what else it might be doing, or that cameras exist.
The natural world, in the 1970s, continued to produce foliage that looked exactly like foliage had always looked. There was no particular innovation in leaf design, nor any apparent urgency.
One can only assume the photographer had a very specific vision for what these leaves represented, or perhaps they just ran out of other, more exciting things to point the lens at that day.
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Textured Green Plant Leaves, 1970s. 1970–1979. Archive & Atlas, Historical Image Library, AA-2026-BCBAD8. https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/textured-green-plant-leaves-1970s.
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