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Landscapes In Passing: Photographs by Steve Fitch, Robbert Flick, and Elaine Mayes
Summer is the time for vacations, and vacations often mean road trips! With all the digital distractions available today, how often do you take a moment to enjoy the world outside your window?
The installation Landscapes in Passing explores photographs of the American landscape by the artists Steve Fitch, Robbert Flick, and Elaine Mayes. Created in the 1970s and 80s, these works focus on the world seen from the road as the American highway system expanded and cities began to sprawl, depicting the landscape as drive-through scenery rather than the entrancing wilderness of past centuries.
The photographs by Fitch, from his series Diesels and Dinosaurs, capture the typical sights and attractions that defined roadside America. Flick's photographs, drawn from his series Sequential Views, consist of grids of images made in Los Angeles in 1980 as he traversed the streets, stopping at prescribed temporal or geographical intervals. Mayes's photographs, from her Autolandscapes series, present America as seen from a moving car window.
Learn more about these works in our video podcast series with Lisa Hostetler, McEvoy Family Curator for Photography.
Landscapes in Passing will be on view through January 20, 2014.
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Image credit: Elaine Mayes, Autolandscape, Colorado, September 1971, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase © 1971, Elaine Mayes
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