From: Peter Marshall (petermarshall@cix.co.uk)
Date: 09/04/02-10:16:06 AM Z
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> On the subject of "pushing the envelope" in landscape photography:
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> I saw a great show yesterday. Actually I helped to hang it at the
> Fotofest headquarters in Houston. IT was photographs by Simon
> Norfolk, a British photographer, and the subject was Afghanistan.
> The photographs were huge inkjet prints, 44x55. They were the best
> inkjet prints I had ever seen, really sharp. I don't know yet if he
> shot them as 4x5 or 8x10 negatives, but they enlarged beautifully.
> Mr Norfolk specified that we should simply tack these huge pieces of
> paper to the wall, which we did.
>
> Anyway, these were "landscapes" and they were absolutely gorgeous,
> but not in the way Ansel Adams's landscapes, for example, are
> beautiful. The images are mostly of Kabul and its surroundings, and
> they show bombed out buildings, piles of spent shells, wrecked
> busses, and the like. The light is beautiful, but the subject of the
> images is quite disturbing and sad. The devastation is not just from
> our bombing of Kabul, but from two decades of war with the Russians
> and from civil war.
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> Seeing this show expanded my idea of what landscape photography can
> be. These images were so far from being boring or old fashioned that
> they refute any idea that landscape photography is somehow "over."
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> --shannon
This show seems to be opening more or less simultaneously at quite a few
galleries around the world - I'm going to one of the openings in London
tomorrow. So others may also find they can see it.
Regards,
Peter Marshall
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