Picturing the Sublime

Photographs from the Joseph and Charlotte Lichtenberg Collection

October 11, 2012 - February 17, 2013

Exhibition Images

Lynn Davis's photograph Iceberg XI, Disko Bay, Greenland — Lynn Davis
*Iceberg XI, Disko Bay, Greenland* (2004)

Lynn Davis's photograph Meroe, Sudan — Lynn Davis
*Meroe, Sudan* (1998)

Richard Misrach's Battleground Point #14 — Richard Misrach
*Battleground Point #14* (1999)

About the Exhibition

Eleven photographs document how artists use the camera to capture the sublime beauty and human destruction of the natural world. The exhibition brings together iconic works by Ansel Adams; contemporary examples by Edward Burtynsky, Lynn Davis, and Richard Misrach; and 19th-century pictures by Francis Frith and Carleton Watkins.