Gallery Talk | Landscape in Question: Photographs by John Pfahl
"Landscape in Question: Selected Work from the John Pfahl Trust"
For more than 40 years, photographer and former RIT faculty member John Pfahl (1939-2020) advanced a diverse and compelling artistic commentary on the natural environment, emphasizing the intervening role of humankind, science and technology. In landscapes majestic and mundane, he brought a well-honed conceptual thinking to his pictorial views, exhibiting a keen interest in the complex “reality” of the photographic image as well as the natural prospects at hand.
In this exhibition, a compilation of series from Pfahl’s long career is presented to showcase his singular vision of the photographic medium and the natural world, and our human relationship to both. To highlight, as he wrote: “… pictures that work on a more mysterious level, that approach the truth by a more circuitous route.”
The show is on view in William Harris Gallery through Nov. 15
Gallery Talk with curators Therese Mulligan and Becky Simmons
5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23
William Harris Gallery - Gannett Hall, 3030
Free // All Welcome
Parking in Lots E or F is free after 5 p.m. and on weekends
Photo: John Pfahl, 2 Balanced Rock Drive, Springdale, UT, 1980, chromogenic print
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