IN-PERSON - - PRC Speaker Series: Laura McPhee

Wed Dec 04 2024 at 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm UTC-05:00

University Hall, Lesley University | Cambridge

Photographic Resource Center
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IN-PERSON - - PRC Speaker Series: Laura McPhee
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IN-PERSON - - 2024/25 PRC Speaker Series with Laura McPhee
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Laura McPhee's landscape photographs made over the last decade or so in the American west provoke questions about our attitudes and beliefs about the earth we inhabit, questions sometimes environmental, sometimes cultural or geographical. Made with film and a large-format view camera, the photographs envelop time, both geologic and human. A serpentine river cuts a deep meander in the land. A gold mine on the edge of the Black Rock Desert is an incision, exposing a ruddy interior. A still-life found on slickrock in the Navajo Nation reveals fragments of human presence — machine parts, zippers, desert-varnished tin cans, a tiny plastic toy among shards of glass and rust. A meditation on our material lives and the unintended consequences of humanity’s attempts to control and manage nature, the images depict our paradoxical efforts as we come to terms with the reality of climate change and as we variously attempt to restore, protect, alter, and exploit the land.

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University Hall, Lesley University, 1815 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, United States

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