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London: Landmark The Fields of Photography

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Presented by the Positive View Foundation, the exhibition Landmark : the Fields of Photography is now on display at the Somerset House in London. The planet is laid bare and deciphered through the shrewd eyes of more than 70 of the 21st century’s greatest photographers, including Thomas Struth, Edward Burtynsky, Taryn Simon, Richard Misrach, Nadav Kander, Sophie Ristelhueber, Mitch Epstein, Simon Norfolk, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Joel Sternfeld and Robert Polidori.

Exhibition curator William A. Ewing has brought together 120 famous and never-before-seen photographs to offer an overview of how artists from different backgrounds represent landscapes in America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Our planet is changing irreversibly due to human activity, not only in its appearance but in its internal workings as well. How should the photographer approach this issue? With a critical eye? Unbiased? Contemplative? Artistic? Admirative? The question is asked but remains unanswered, and understandably so: the photographer’s role is to visually interpret a reality which the viewer must then face.

The state of our planet is a subject that concerns everyone today. But in a time where moralistic photographs have become tiresome, exhibitions like Landmark : the Fields of Photography allow the viewer to see the environment with a certain distance. These photographs are at once beautiful, amusing and disturbing, and together they form a comprehensive typology of the contemporary landscape, with images of rising oceans, melting glaciers, far-off galaxies, holes in the ozone layer, desertification and other familiar natural elements.

Landmark : the Fields of Photography offers a retrospective of the genre of landscape photography, revealing the beauty and the unrelenting destruction of the environment today.

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Read the full article on the French version of Le Journal

Landmark : the Fields of Photography
From March 14th to April 28th, 2013
Somerset House
East Wing Galleries, East Wing. Terrace Rooms & Courtyard Rooms, South Wing
Strand
London
WC2R 1LA
United Kingdom

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