Widening the Lens Artists’ Panel
Join us for an artist panel featuring Victoria Sambunaris (left), Melissa Catanese, and Chanell Stone. Emmy Mickevicius, Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography, will moderate a conversation about how their work in Widening the Lens engages the exhibition's themes, from land use and its environmental impact to ancestral migration and nature as a memorial landscape.
Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape is on view February 26 – June 15.
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Victoria Sambunaris: Transformation of a Landscape
I think of “social geography” as a term to describe my photographic work and methodology…The photographs that I produce question traditional and clichéd notions of landscape, our place within it, and the collective roles and responsibilities in how and why we shape it the way we do.
– Victoria Sambunaris
Her first book in over ten years, Victoria Sambunaris: Transformation of a Landscape shares the nuance and majesty of the artist’s practice in a large-scale book format. Each year, Sambunaris structures her life around a photographic journey traversing the American landscape. Equipped with a 5×7-inch field camera, film, a video camera, and research material, she crosses the country alone by car for several months. Her large-scale photographs capture the continuing transformation of the American landscape with specific attention given to expanding political, technological, and industrial interventions.
Part of her ongoing, twenty-year series Taxonomy of a Landscape, this book encompasses the past decade of work, including collected ephemera that form the essential and incidental elements of her practice as a photographer and researcher. Also featured are archival documentation of experiences and observations on the road, such as snapshots, maps, road logs, journals, geology and history books, mineral specimens, and artifacts. This title follows her first book with Radius, Taxonomy of a Landscape.
Photography by Victoria Sambunaris
Texts by Victoria Sambunaris and Angie Keefer
Conversation with Dionne Lee
$70