David Benjamin Sherry @ Morán Morán

f-stop magazine
Aug 31, 2018 · 1 min read

David Benjamin Sherry: Monuments
September 8 — October 20, 2018

Opening reception: Saturday, September 8, 6–8pm

“The revivification and radicalization of the colonial history of American landscape photography — which, ironically, is gorgeous and irresistibly romantic — is David Benjamin Sherry’s objective in Monuments, presenting eight photographs that feature scenes from National Monuments. By celebrating and honoring the environmental ethic, kinship with wilderness, and formal mastery of pre-digital, film-based, darkroom photography popularized by Edward Weston, Minor White, Ansel Adams, and Robert Adams, Sherry keeps this heroic tradition alive by communing with far-flung forests and deserts to locate compositions that he transforms into sublime images. But his relationship to these forefathers stops there; his practice conceptually centers itself in education and rejection of perpetuating the corrupt political history of the American West, whose legends of freedom are fabricated from stolen lands which have been consistently abused and destroyed.”

Morán Morán
937 N. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90069


Originally published at F-Stop Magazine.

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