"Desert Light" Exhibition
Throckmorton Fine Art
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An exhibition of photography portraying the stark beauty of deserts. What brings the desert to the fore—drawing the attention of so many talented photographers—is its brilliant, even over-powering, light. Photography is sometimes said to be “all about light.” Nowhere is this assertion truer than in the desert.
The exhibit includes the work of a number of photographers who have been attracted to deserts– photographs in the exhibit range from the early part of the twentieth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Despite the variety of images included in the exhibit, they are united by more than their setting in the deserts of North and South America, and North Africa. The powerful light of the desert makes for bold contrasts, giving every photograph, even those of the human figure, an abstract quality—and so an aura of modernism.
[Image: Edward Weston "Dunes, Oceano, CA" (1936) printed later by Cole Weston Gelatin Silver Print 7.5 x 9.5 in]
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Schedule
from June 25, 2009 to September 12, 2009