Tag Archives: landscape

Preserving wilderness

Posted on September 16, 2019 by Christopher George

Ansel Adams, Sierra Juniper – Mount Hooper, ca. 1929 (306.1991) Ansel Adams, Minarets, Iceberg Lake, ca. 1929 (315.1991) Ansel Adams, Sierra Club Party on Mount Ritter, ca. 1929 (319.1991) Ansel Adams, Mount Conness – Tenaya Lake, ca. 1929 (324.1991) Ansel … Continue reading →

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“Water is Life”

Posted on August 23, 2017 by Christopher George

Morley Baer (1916–1995), North Cove, Soberanes Point, Sur Coast, California, 1965 (291.1991) Paul Caponigro, Sandstone and Surf, Cape Kiwanda, Oregon, 1959 (66.2001.10) Hiroshi Hamaya (1915-1999), Tojinbo, Japan, 1960 (icp.3981) Hidekazu Iwase, Precious Jewel, 1989 (41.1994) Soichi Kiyooka (1915-1991), Tatsukushi, Kochi, … Continue reading →

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A First Shout-Out: The New, New American Landscape

Posted on April 11, 2014 by fansinaflashbulb

Ernst Haas, Montana. On Set–Little Big Man Filming, 1969 (3.1976) The American landscape of our memory, and relatively our most recent past, first memorialized in the subtle hues and creamy pastels by the grand painting masters such as Thomas Cole, … Continue reading →

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Fold

Posted on February 27, 2014 by fansinaflashbulb

Richard Avedon, [Hand and arm in long sleeved blouse in front of black hair], ca. 1968 (2151.2005) Lou Bernstein, Kathie, N.Y. Aquarium, 1977 (94.1992) Lala Deen Dayal, General View of City and Lake, Udaipur, ca. 1880s (125.1980) Martin Munkacsi, [Woman … Continue reading →

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Soichi Kiyooka’s Nikko, Tochigi

Posted on February 25, 2014 by fansinaflashbulb

Soichi Kiyooka, Nikko, Tochigi, January 1971 (19.1994) The photograph was taken at Nikko, Tochigi, a Japanese tourist town. In the photograph we see what could be called an iceberg, or maybe it is just a rock in the water that … Continue reading →

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Baby, It’s Cold Outside

Posted on January 7, 2014 by erinbarnett

Attributed to George Barker, [Niagara Falls in Winter], ca. 1890 (2007.56.1) Alfred Eisenstaedt, Mont Tremblant, Canada, 1943 (303.1989) Soichi Kiyooka, Nikko, Tochigi, January 1974 (17.1994) John Loengard, Henry Moore’s Sheep Piece, 1983 (195.1987)

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The Forest of Fontainebleau

Posted on November 7, 2013 by Renske van Leeuwen

The first known photographic image of the forest of Fontainebleau (French: Forêt de Fontainebleau, or Forêt de Bière, meaning “forest of heather”—lying sixty kilometers southeast of Paris) is a daguerreotype by an anonymous photographer from around 1845, which can be … Continue reading →

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Coeburn, Virginia

Posted on October 8, 2013 by fansinaflashbulb

Joel Sternfeld, Coeburn, Viginia, April 1981 (86.1984) Joel Sternfeld is known for his large-format photographs of America in the early 1980s. Sternfeld traveled throughout the country extensively, capturing the beauty of the American landscape but also producing subtle and ironic … Continue reading →

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Monocular Vision and Absurd Perspectives

Posted on October 4, 2013 by Renske van Leeuwen

John Pfahl, Australian Pines, Fort DeSoto, Florida, 1977 (416.1984) From 1974 to 1978, American photographer John Pfahl (b. 1939) worked on a series of unmanipulated color photographs on the theme of The Altered Landscape. The series consists of landscape photographs … Continue reading →

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American Pictorialist William Edward Dassonville’s San Francisco

Posted on October 3, 2012 by fansinaflashbulb

William Edward Dassonville, San Francisco from Telegraph Hill, ca. 1925 (2008.93.3) William Edward Dassonville, Portsmouth Square, ca. 1925 (2008.93.4) William Edward Dassonville, San Francisco from Telegraph Hill, ca. 1925 (2007.101.1) William Edward Dassonville, Golden Gate Bridge from Sausalito, ca. 1937 (2008.104.9) William Edward Dassonville, … Continue reading →

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