Laurence Miller Gallery Artist

Fuji Apples in an Orchard, Orondo, WA, 2000

20 x 24" c-print, edition 30 , 30 x 40" c-print, edition 20
(printed on Fuji Crystal Archive paper)

   Virginia Beahan and Laura McPhee met in an Introduction to Photography class at Princeton taught by Emmet Gowin in 1977 and began their artistic collaboration ten years later. They cultivated a seamless partnership, wherein both artists are involved with choosing subjects, finalizing compositions, and interpreting light, among the many technical elements of their picture-making process. Traveling throughout the world, they search for rich landscapes that reflect a complex relationship between humans and nature. The resulting large-format color photographs present viewers with a subjective documentation of the global landscape during or in retrospect of moments of change.

   The Laurence Miller Gallery recently exhibited a new body of photographs taken exclusively in the United States, entitled The Country Between Us. In response to this work, Andy Grundberg writes:

   The landscapes they focus on are exemplary -- sometimes hyperbolically so -- of how we visually encode the idea of nature into our everyday lives, and as a result they can claim to be extraordinary. Looked at another way, the photographs show us that our penchant for encoding nature has virtually preempted any chance that the natural world might appear as ordinary -- that is to say, as itself. Roll over, Ansel Adams."    

   Biography      Gallery Exhibition: The Country Between Us       Link: Laura McPhee Website

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