The Selling of the West
March 5 to April 25 2010
Opening Reception: Friday March 5 at 7pm
Landscape is a subject to which Woodman has repeatedly returned to over the years. The photo tradition he comes from has been characterized as the ‘Ansel Adam School’ of the idealized landscape. Of course, nowadays, one has to travel to areas with sparse populations that are inaccessible by motorized vehicle in order to find unobstructed vistas like those in Adam’s photographs. The works on view record the landscape as it is; being sold, closed off and/or developed complete with trash, weeds, roads and powerlines. In doing so he has had to shed the mantle of the tradition of landscape photography instead revealing the real world we live in.
