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Laura McPhee, Smoke from a Wildfire Ignited by Sparks from a Burn Barrell, Champion Creek, Custer County, Idaho. Gift of the artist and Carroll and Sons (Boston, MA) in honor of Joe Deal, RISD Provost, 1999-2005, Professor of Photography, 2005-2009

America in View

Landscape Photography 1865 to Now
September 21, 2012 - January 13, 2013
Laura McPhee, Smoke from a Wildfire Ignited by Sparks from a Burn Barrell, Champion Creek, Custer County, Idaho. Gift of the artist and Carroll and Sons (Boston, MA) in honor of Joe Deal, RISD Provost, 1999-2005, Professor of Photography, 2005-2009

Introduction

America in View: Landscape Photography 1865 to Now offers a history of photographs of the American landscape primarily through the collection of the RISD Museum. The ever-evolving definition of landscape photography encompasses everything from seemingly pristine vistas captured with 19th century view cameras to the decaying urban streets composed today from Google Street View. The RISD Museum's collection of American landscape photography begins at the end of the Civil War in 1865, when photographers traveled west with government survey teams and railroad companies to record the country's extraordinary natural features and resources. Ever since, landscape has remained a compelling subject for photographers, who have revealed through their images this country's ambition and failings, beauty and degradation, politics and personal stories.

In this gallery you will find a variety of approaches to contemporary landscape photography. In the larger gallery, a chronological display takes us from the earliest images of dramatic wilderness through numerous shifts of style and context into the 21st century.

America in View was inspired by a generous gift of photographs to the RISD Museum from the collection of the late Joe Deal (RISD Provost 1999–2005; Professor of Photography, 2005-2009) and his widow, Betsy Ruppa, as well as gifts from friends and colleagues in Deal's honor.

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America in View: Landscape Photography 1865 to Now

A broad panorama of our country’s topographies and correlating narratives, America in View reveals a nation’s ambitions and failings, beauty and loss, politics and personal stories through about 150 photographs spanning nearly 150 years.

America in View : Landscape Photography 1865 to Now

September 21, 2012 - January 13, 2013
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