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FEATURED ARTISTS Robert Adams Born 1937, Orange, New Jersey Lives in Astoria, Oregon "I supposed at some extreme end of things, I would hope finding a kind of order in the viewfinder of the camera does imply a measure of coherence in life." —Robert Adams Adams has photographed the landscape of the American West and Midwest for more than 40 years with a keen eye toward California, Oregon, and Colorado. His lens at once captures the timeless beauty of the Western landscape and the forces such as unrelenting commercial and residential development that threaten to forever alter and degrade it. Adam Bartos Born 1953, New York Lives in New York City “The pictures attempt to do justice to a place that combines elements of classical beauty with the ordinary, both human and natural, in a seamless way.”—Adam Bartos His photographs of the recreational campgrounds of Hither Hills State Park in Montauk, Long Island, depict the banal elements of the family vacation set against the natural beauty of the ocean side landscape. Bartos focuses on worn beach chairs, a half steel drum doubling as a barbeque pit and even a bag of trash -- elements out of step with the natural beauty of the sea grasses and sand. Virginia Beahan and Laura McPhee Beahan born 1946, Philadelphia Lives in Lyme Center, New Hampshire McPhee born 1958, New York Lives in Brookline, Massachusetts “Our work is about how human inventiveness has shaped the natural world, and it tries to convey the multiple possibilities for reading landscape.” —Virginia Beahan and Laura McPhee Beahan and McPhee explore the ways people interact with the landscapes in which they live. For more than a decade, they traveled the world together and collaborated seamlessly to discover through their photographs a complex fabric woven of fact and fiction, and people’s attitudes when faced with the elements of nature. -more- Page 2 William Christenberry Born 1936, Tuscaloosa, Alabama Lives in Washington, D.C. “What I really feel very strongly about – and I hope it reflects in my work – is the human touch, the humanness of things. The positive and sometimes the negative and sometimes the sad.” —William Christenberry Widely recognized as one of the pioneers in the field of color photography, Christenberry carefully documents the architecture, signage and landscape of rural Alabama, from where he hails. His photographic exploration of the American South has been ongoing for forty years, as he seeks to memorialize the losses of the past. Robert Dawson Born 1950, Sacramento, California Lives in San Francisco "I have long been interested in the varied uses of photography in our culture, especially as they relate to a personal search for understanding our relationship to the landscape through the creative process." —Robert Dawson Dawson has concentrated his works on the ever-changing Western landscape while seeking to shape and influence greater public consciousness about the environment. From the junk in backyards to the pollution of our waterways, Dawson sets his sights on illuminating the critical environmental issues facing the West. John Divola Born 1949, Los Angeles Lives in Riverside, California “My primary interest is to create images which are iconographic of a desire. A desire to be `beyond,’ a desire to be alone—a sign of man on the landscape.” —John Divola Taken 150 miles outside Los Angeles, Divola has photographed tiny, brightly painted yet dilapidated houses carefully perched on the literal and figurative edge of a densely populated region. Titled by the notations of longitude and latitude, his Isolated Houses are indicative of the photographer’s four-decade career, in which he has sought to investigate a conceptual, rather than a documentary, approach. -more- Page 3 Jim Dow Born 1942, Boston Lives in Belmont, Massachusetts “I use photography to try to record the manifestations of human ingenuity and spirit still remaining in our country's everyday landscape." —Jim Dow From neon signage at a Springdale, Arkansas donut shop to an empty upstairs bar in Nashville, Tennessee, Dow's images capture small town America on the road less traveled. Often devoid of people, his work is focused on preserving provincial American models of diners, barbershops, dance halls, motels, and baseball parks. Doug Dubois Born 1960, Dearborn, Michigan Lives in Syracuse, New York “The central anxiety of photography is knowing when to stop photographing.” —Doug Dubois Dubois has turned the camera toward his family for the past 20 years, recording the moments that capture their interactions and emotions. His grandmother in particular became an inspiration for his work, as her recollections of life in the small coal-mining town of Avella, Pennsylvania, provided him with a guide to revisit the area and explore its spirit, both past and present. William Eggleston Born 1939, Memphis, Tennessee Lives in Memphis, Tennessee “I don't have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It's not a conscious effort, nor is it a struggle.” —William Eggleston Eggleston is widely regarded as one of the leading and most influential color photographers of the 20th century, having been one of the first non-commercial photographers to work in color. He has focused his attention mostly on the South, where he was born and raised, in his striking exploration of the ordinary nature of common events among his family, friends, and other everyday subjects. -more- Page 4 Mitch Epstein Born 1952, Holyoke, Massachusetts Lives in New York City “What matters to me is individual truth.” —Mitch Epstein For more than 30 years, Epstein has captured the common to the sublime within the unique cultures of India, Vietnam, Japan, Southeast Asia and the Caribbean, as well as New York and his hometown of Holyoke, Massachusetts. His Family Business series records the demise of the business successes of his Jewish immigrant family that mirrored the fall of the once prominent New England town where they lived. Rhea Garen Born 1959, Offenbach, Germany Lives in Ithaca, New York “I’m trying to bridge a self-imposed distance and a barrier the camera imparts." —Rhea Garen Garen has found inspiration in photographing her neighbors’ yards in Ithaca, New York, capturing the stagnancy of these unpopulated, mostly neglected and somewhat chaotic scenes from a distance. It is through these studies that Garen explores her own curiosity about people’s personal spaces and how it connects them to the rest of the world. Karen Halverson Born 1941, Syracuse, New York Lives in Chatham, New York "I am never interested in showing just the beauty or just the mess we've made. Both things are true." —Karen Halverson Halverson is a longtime landscape photographer who became enamored with the city’s fabled Mulholland Drive. The dramatic 50-mile road literally and figuratively separates Los Angeles proper from the San Fernando Valley and more significantly represents for Halverson a juncture where human will and ingenuity meet the forces of nature. -more- Page 5 Alex Harris Born 1949, Atlanta, Georgia Lives in Durham, North Carolina “I'm always trying to respond to what is happening in front of the lens, not to show something but to try to capture life in an authentic way." —Alex Harris Harris's effort to connect photography to the way in which people live has provided an important thread of continuity in his work. His photography has taken him to the American South and Southwest, Cuba and Alaska, where he has lived and worked among his subjects, seeking to convey their personalities through the domestic environments they create. David Husom Born 1948, Minneapolis, Minnesota Lives in St. Paul, Minnesota “My artwork is a personal exploration. It is a discovery of the subject - vernacular architecture being a favorite - and form.” —David Husom Husom first established himself with a series of photographs documenting the architecture of his native Minnesota’s 95 state and county fairgrounds. He concentrates on the concept of similitude by capturing familiar places, buildings and interiors, and the activities people engage in there for entertainment. Mary Kocol Born 1962, Hartford, Connecticut Lives in Somerville, Massachusetts "I am particularly intrigued by the drama of the ordinary. Familiar places transcend their ordinary context and for a short-lived moment, become something else.” —Mary Kocol Kocol finds herself drawn to the intersections of natural and artificial light, especially as it relates to Christmas displays in Somerville, Massachusetts, the place she calls home. While people are absent from her photographs, the lives they lead are undeniably present. -more- Page 6 Joel Meyerowitz Born 1938, New York Lives in New York City and Provincetown, Massachusetts “The momentary mess we find ourselves in at times is a photographer's stock in trade. Timing is everything.” —Joel Meyerowitz New York born Meyerowitz began his career in the street photography tradition and quickly moved from using black and white to shooting on color film, becoming one of the artists to elevate the medium to fine art. Thirty years ago, he began photographing landscapes on Cape Cod, capturing its charms and the fine distinction between color and light. Sheron Rupp Born 1943, Mansfield, Ohio Lives in Northampton, Massachusetts “What happens between me and my camera and the people I befriend to photograph is a matter of great, blessed circumstance, luck and the incidence of time.” —Sheron Rupp Rupp, trained in sociology and psychology, spent 15 years roaming around America, photographing people where they live. Her pictures of working-class families in New England and the South are both social document and commentary, as they capture a warm appreciation for life’s seemingly ordinary, everyday occurrences. Stephen Shore Born 1947, New York Lives in Stone Ridge, New York “A photographer may have questions and problems that he or she brings to a picture- making situation.