dnj Gallery artist: ROBERT VON STERNBERG
at the Norton Simon Museum
March 6, 2015 - August 31, 2015
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| Columbia Icefield, Canada, 2009 Archival inkjet print, Artist's Proof 13.5" x 19 |
"Long-revered conventions have held that landscape and nature photography should minimize evidence of human presence. In this framework, the best images offer up the pristine vistas that photographer Lewis Baltz has wryly characterized as “the privileged world of pure nature.” The ten artists in Human/Nature: Photographers Constructing the Natural World play with and against this tradition. In the work on display, these artists treat signs of humanity, and our activities, as essential, constitutive elements of their image-making practice rather than as undesirable or unfortunate inclusions. Drawing upon American photography from the 1960s to the present in the Norton Simon’s permanent collections, this exhibition sees “nature” and “culture” not in opposition, but in dialogue."
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