Name: A/political Rocks
Start: 2023-09-07T10:00:00-07:00
End: 2023-09-07T19:00:00-07:00
Location: A/political Rocks

Partners

Henry Art Gallery

Venue

Henry Art Gallery
Northeast Seattle, Seattle

Upper Level Galleries: July 22, 2023 — January 14, 2024

Drawn from the Henry collection, A/political Rocks explores the role landscape photography has played in shaping experiences of the American West, paying particular attention to among the most superficially banal and apolitical of landscape subgenres: images of rocks. Through critical attention to the shifting circumstances in which these photographs were made, consideration of the changing contexts of their display, and attention to the writing of their history this exhibition invites viewers to reflect on the power and politics of landscape. Spanning a roughly hundred-year period, the works in the exhibition range from documentary images produced as part of nineteenth-century geological surveys to modernist pictures made with artistic intent in the twentieth century. Taking several canonical American photographers as its focus, the exhibition includes work by Ansel Adams, Timothy O’Sullivan, Carleton Watkins, and Edward Weston, among others. Surveying a range of photographic approaches to landscape, the exhibition will also consider the formation of modernist camera aesthetics, evolving American attitudes towards nature, questions of race and citizenship, and photography’s complex entanglements with industrial capitalism and settler colonialism in the United States.

Upcoming Dates

Thu, Oct 5, 2023 10:00am
Fri, Oct 6, 2023 10:00am
Sat, Oct 7, 2023 10:00am
Sun, Oct 8, 2023 10:00am
Thu, Oct 12, 2023 10:00am
Fri, Oct 13, 2023 10:00am
Sat, Oct 14, 2023 10:00am
Sun, Oct 15, 2023 10:00am
Thu, Oct 19, 2023 10:00am
Fri, Oct 20, 2023 10:00am
Sat, Oct 21, 2023 10:00am
Sun, Oct 22, 2023 10:00am
Thu, Oct 26, 2023 10:00am
Fri, Oct 27, 2023 10:00am
Sat, Oct 28, 2023 10:00am
Sun, Oct 29, 2023 10:00am
Thu, Nov 2, 2023 10:00am
Fri, Nov 3, 2023 10:00am
Sat, Nov 4, 2023 10:00am
Sun, Nov 5, 2023 10:00am
Thu, Nov 9, 2023 10:00am
Fri, Nov 10, 2023 10:00am
Sat, Nov 11, 2023 10:00am
Sun, Nov 12, 2023 10:00am
Thu, Nov 16, 2023 10:00am
Fri, Nov 17, 2023 10:00am
Sat, Nov 18, 2023 10:00am
Sun, Nov 19, 2023 10:00am
Thu, Nov 23, 2023 10:00am
Fri, Nov 24, 2023 10:00am

Age Recommendation

Ages 13+

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