Photographing the American Land: An Alternate to Classic Landscape Photography - a curator talk

The American landscape has a long tradition of photography--people have long admired our beautiful mountains, our wide rivers, our plains and forests. We also have a tradition in photography of how we have used the land, and how we are using it now. This curator talk discusses the tradition we have and the newer explorations of land in current practice throughout the country.

Images of landscape and the West have been vital subjects in Phillips' writing, and this talk offers thoughts in her development of a future exhibition on land use.

"Photographing the American Land" was presented in connection with the fall 2018 Wichita Art Museum exhibition, "Kansas Land: Farm Photography," featuring artists Larry Schwarm and Byron Darby.

Sandra S. Phillips is Curator Emerita of Photography of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where she worked for nearly 30 years. She is among the leading photography writers and curators with projects on such greats as Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, and Rineke Dijkstra.

Originally recorded the evening of Wednesday, October 25, 2018 in the Howard E. Wooden Lecture Hall at the Wichita Art Museum in Wichita, Kansas.

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