Landscape photography doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Long before cameras, artists were already trying to answer many of the same questions photographers face today: how to show a three dimensional subject on a flat surface, how to convey scale, how to guide the eye through an image, and how to translate the experience of being in a place into something that can live on a wall...
Some of the most influential and famous landscape photographers in history built their work around America’s national parks and the wider American West. Long before widespread tourism, their photographs shaped how these places were seen, understood, and in some cases protected...
National parks have inspired some of the most influential American artists and photographers ever to work in the landscape. Long before Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Mount Rainier became destinations for travelers, painters such as Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran and photographers such as Carleton Watkins and Ansel Adams used these places to create images that shaped how Americans saw the wilderness...
A few years ago, a collector in Seattle called me after her print arrived. She loved the photograph she ordered. It was a long exposure of the Olympic coast at dusk, but the framing felt off. The image needed more breathing room...
