American Landscape: Contemporary Photographs of the West September 22, 2011

This exhibition features work by a dozen photographers who have sought to create a direct and clear-eyed appraisal of the American landscape incorporating the lessons of New Topographics as well as the influence of the earliest photographers who surveyed the West in the 1860s and 1870s. Their work is not without the lyricism and affection that has always characterized American landscape photography, but they are more likely to engage local terrain -- the suburbs and exurbs; the footprint of industry and development; the confines of a single river basin or valley; or the human history and cultural history within the landscape -- that stands between us and the mythic horizon.