What is a landscape?
In the exhibition "The Expanded Landscape," contemporary artists expand the definition of a landscape beyond the natural scenery.
Whether offering the beauty of abstraction or creating a surreal composition, photographers engage with the idea of how humans impact the landscape around them.
This first image is part of a series called "The Country Between Us."
Virginia Beahan and Laura McPhee captured the rolling hills in the eastern part of Washington state, called the Palouse, with a large-format camera.
The land is volcanic dust, but also fertile farmland. Beahan and McPhee intentionally omitted the sky to remove a sense of stability and balance to disorient the viewer.
Let's have a look at the second image.
At first, you may think these formations are neon blue icebergs, but they're granite outcroppings coming out of the Oregon Coast water.
For this work, Richard Misrach developed this work as an homage to the negative film. Misrach makes photographs w...
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