Lament, by Linda Foard Roberts, merges photographs, personal narratives, and scholarly texts to explore the intersection of history and memory, particularly in the American South. Using Civil War-era photography equipment, Roberts captures the echoes of social history, aiming to inspire change and reflection on life, death, and human rights through art. Continue reading Exploring History Through Linda Foard Roberts’ Lament
Patrick Dougherty, a renowned sculptor, utilizes sticks to create structures that resonate with their surroundings, while photographer James Florio captures this art and the landscape. Their collaborative book, Sticks, showcases sixteen projects through Florio’s striking photography and explores the relationship between sculpture and photography. Continue reading Exploring Patrick Dougherty’s Art Through James Florio’s Lens
Using camera lenses made of Arctic ice, Tristan Duke’s ongoing, experimental photographic project, Glacial Optics, explores our current moment of climate crisis. This volume includes essays by Lucy R. Lippard, Mark Cheetham, William L. Fox, and Brandee Caoba, with a foreword from Michael Govan, as well as the artist’s field notes and research chronicling the unlikely history of ice lenses. Continue reading Tristan Duke’s Glacial Optics: Art Meets Climate Science
The 345 photographs in American Geography (divided by regions) address ways in which different histories and traditions of land use have given rise to different cultural transitions, such as the growth of industry in the Northeast, agricultural developments in the Midwest, the legacies of slavery on the economies of the South, and the mining of natural resources as well as environmental crises in the West. … Continue reading American Geography: Photographs of Land Use from 1840 to Present
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