Great North American Landscapes Vol.1 #3


  • Photographer
    Carolyn Doucette
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Company/Studios
    Carolyn Doucette Projects
  • Date of Photograph
    2014
  • Technical Info
    18x24 inches archival inkjet

Great North American Landscapes Vol. 1 #3, invites viewers to challenge the construction and implications of traditional Western dichotomies between nature and culture. In this work, I visually disrupt conventionally composed landscape imagery by printing digital designs created with iPhone applications over landscape photographs that reference Ansel Adams’s and Edward Weston’s iconic homages to the North American landscape. The geometric forms interrupting these familiar landscape images evoke designs by American modernist and postmodernist architects such as Frank Gehry, Thom Mayne and Richard Meier. These architects’ perfectly proportioned structures abstractly allude to organic forms but defy nature’s logic. In this style, my design’s hyper-vivid colors and strict symmetry clash with the geologically and historically complex landscape, representing humanity’s destructive desire to force itself on the land, in one form or another.

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