“I have been using the art of photography to research the ways in which the pictorial strategies of the Nineteenth Century color the way in which the American landscape is apprehended by today's viewers.” WayHas BeensArtTodayCenturyColorPhotographyResearchStrategyPhotographerLandscapeViewersNineteenth CenturyPictorialAmerican Landscape Author:John Pfahl
“It is not without trepidation that I have appropriated the codes of the Sublime and the Picturesque in my work. After all, serious photographers have spent most of this century trying to expunge such extravagances from their art. The tradition lives on, mostly in calendars and picture postcards. I was challenged to rework and revitalize that which had been so roundly denigrated.” TryingArtCenturySeriousTraditionPhotographerCodeSublimeCalendarsExtravagancePostcardsPicturesqueTrepidationRework Author:John Pfahl