View Finder: Landscape and Leisure in the Collection @ Museum of Contemporary Photography

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View Finder: Landscape and Leisure in the Collection @ Museum of Contemporary Photography

May 18th, 2018 by fstop

William Henry Jackson, Cathedral Spires, Garden of the Gods, Colorado, 1901

View Finder: Landscape and Leisure in the Collection
Jul 19 — Sep 30, 2018

“Photography has played a vital role in our understanding of the outdoors, allowing us to view natural spaces without being physically present in them. Parks fill a similar role, as they provide institutional access points and infrastructure into wild, natural spaces. In his book Our National Parks (1901), John Muir, cofounder of the Sierra Club, wrote: “Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, overcivilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.”[i] Presenting a selection of historical and contemporary works from the MoCP’s permanent collection and the Midwestern Photographers Project, View Finder: Landscape and Leisure in the Collection considers the varied ways these designated outdoor spaces enhance human experience, from allowing for rest and refuge, to their ability to meet other, more subliminal needs.”
[i] John Muir, Our National Parks (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press, 1901), 1.

Museum of Contemporary Photography
at Columbia College Chicago
600 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605

Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States Type: Exhibition

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