# @gettymuseum on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CUQZqKjoo_W
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34228934-gettymuseum-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-09-25T19:25:25.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty (@gettymuseum) — https://gondola.cc/gettymuseum

## Caption

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 with the digital camera and uses the positive that comes up in the digital camera as the negative. He then flips it and uses that negative as the final image.

For Misrach, reducing visual content to forms invites the viewer to create new connections and associations.
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