Land Meets Water – European and American Photography from 1860 to the Present extends a series of exhibitions that Artipelag has devoted to nature and its image in art. This time photography takes centre stage, and the unifying theme is the elemental encounter of land and water, undisturbed by the presence of man. Guest curator Peter Galassi has assembled more than 300 works, dating from the 1860s to the present, by European (mostly Scandinavian) and American photographers. The exhibition presents photographs by both l ittle-known and celebrated figures, which range in size from small stereographs made in Lappland in 1868 to the large color prints of today. Significant groups of photographs by Ansel Adams, Lee Friedlander, Knud Knudsen, Axel Lindahl, Sune Jonsson, and Edward Weston are included. Among the contemporary participating artists are Robert Adams, Olaf Otto Becker, Jim Bengston, Lois Conner, Ann Christine Eek, Olafur Eliasson, Andreas Gursky, and Jem Southam.
EXHIBITION
Land Meets Water
European and American Photography from 1860 to the Present
29 May–27 September 2015
Artipelag, Värmdö
Sweden
Guest curator: Peter Galassi
