Stephen Shore's poignant and jaw dropping photo taken outside "K Falls"
MoMA's
Into The Sunset show charts the persistent role of photography as commentator
on the West and Stephen Shore's photograph taken outside Klammath Falls is the
poster child. It opens Sunday.
Ken
Johnson's NYT's review discusses the trend but this is nothing new to Portlanders.
Last year
Wild
Beauty provided a similarly sardonic spectacle and video artist/filmmaker
Matt
McCormick made this very subject the core of his last solo show at Elizabeth
Leach Gallery. Todd Johnson's
interesting
curatorial project at Gallery Homeland in 2008 also beat MoMA to the punch. I do think Wild Beauty answered Ken Johnson's longing for something that was so bleak. Luckilly
the book is still available.
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