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Tag: landscape photography

Afternoon Light, St Kilda (Boreray and Stac an Armin (foreground) Hirta (background)

St. Kilda—Nature, the Sublime, the Picturesque

Posted on August 10, 2022

The term nature evokes mountains, waterfalls, deep forests, and Ansel Adam’s landscape photographs. This popular association of nature with beautiful outdoor splendor began in the 16th and 17th centuries. The landscaped gardens of the British and French aristocracy, which emphasized the precise control of nature, were an early expression of burgeoning nature and landscape consciousness. The rise…

Death Valley, Painted Landscapes

Posted on January 3, 2017October 29, 2020

The mediums of painting and photography have intersected at many times. With the invention of photography, painters began to work from photographs. Eugene Delacroix created nude studies based on daguerreotype photographs by Eugene Durieu. Praising the effects of photography, Delacroix wrote in 1850 “A daguerreotype is the mirror of the object, certain details almost always…

Beach Ball, Mojave Desert Ruin

Occasions

Posted on June 18, 2015May 10, 2021

First begun in 1984, Occasions juxtaposes gift wrapping papers, party streamers, balloons, beach balls, and other brightly colored objects with the ruins of Native American pueblos, mission ruins, ghost towns, military forts, gas stations, and other abandoned structures located throughout the western landscape. The title for Occasions derives from the advertised suggestions for wrapping papers and party…

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