Since the invention of the camera, photographers have enthralled viewers by interpreting the natural world. Viewfinders: Photographers Frame Nature explores artists’ varied responses to the relationship between nature and humans. These lens-based works reveal the divergent ways in which nature continues to fuel documentation of the human experience and imagination—from images symbolizing the untamed power of nature to those in which the landscape has been shaped and exploited by humans. It traces the lure of photography through five themes culminating in contemporary times when every person with a smartphone has the power to “frame nature.”
Viewfinders is guest curated by Susan Van Scoy, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Art History at St. Joseph’s University, Long Island.
