SF Camerawork
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Sean McFarland, Untitled (from Pictures of Earth), Courtesy of the artist and SF Camerawork
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Apr 2, 2009 – May 23, 2009
Tuesdays–Fridays (noon–5pm)
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In 2003, an 1857 albumen print of Gustave Le Gray's The Great Wave, Sète set the new world record for the most expensive photograph sold at auction. The ghost of Le Gray, who so often turned his camera to natural phenomena, haunts the meteorological photography of Sean McFarland, the first local recipient of the prestigious Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers. Like Le Gray, McFarland captures — or appears to have captured — nature's wild beauty in chiaroscuro. Unlike the work of his turn-of-the-century predecessor, however, McFarland's seemingly instant Polaroids are actually meticulously rendered digital composites, bearing witness to the photographer's own hand as much as to the haunting landscapes they purportedly portray.
