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Lewis and Clark Revisited: A Trail in Modern Day, Photographs by Greg Mac Gregor
December 11, 2004 - February 6, 2005
(above: Greg Mac Gregor, 2000. Photograph by Jo Whaley)
Fascinated by the
extensive journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, photographer Greg
Mac Gregor embarked on a journey in their footsteps across the United States
to capture with his camera the contemporary legacy of the explorers' famous 1804-1806 expedition.
Mac Gregor's stunning visual chronicle will be on view at the Philadelphia
Museum of Art as part of a citywide bicentennial celebration of the Lewis
and Clark expedition. (right: Greg Mac Gregor, Ameristar II Casino
Riverboat, Council Bluffs, Iowa, 1996, gelatin silver print, framed:
23 x 20 inches. © Greg Mac Gregor)
Lewis and Clark Revisited: A Trail in Modern Day, Photographs by Greg Mac Gregor is on view in the Julien Levy Gallery from December 11, 2004 - February 6, 2005. The exhibition presents sixty of the artist's black-and-white photographs of sites along the Corps of Discovery's original route, made over a six-year period from 1993-1999. Excerpts from the explorers' original writings about their encounters and impressions are included, paralleling Mac Gregor's own focus on the human presence in the landscape and his documentation of the American West's transformation during the past 200 years.
"Greg Mac Gregor's journey through eleven states does not attempt to recreate the uncharted Western landscape as it appeared to Lewis and Clark," said Katherine Ware, Curator of Photographs. "By recording the contemporary imprint of power lines, bridges and convenience stores, he presents an unflinching view of the development of the American landscape over two centuries."
Mac Gregor is professor of photography at California State University, Hayward. He received a Master of Arts in photography from San Francisco State University in 1970 and a Master of Science in physics from The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in 1964. He has taught both photography and physics at the university level and worked as an astrophysicist. He is the author of Overland: The California Emigrant Trail of 18411870. and his work is in the permanent collection of over twenty major museums including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the George Eastman House and the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
The exhibition is traveling to more than fifteen cities throughout the United States as part of the nationwide commemoration of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial. and is organized by Smith Kramer Fine Art Services and is coordinated in Philadelphia by Katherine Ware, Curator of Photographs.
The exhibition is accompanied by the book Lewis and
Clark Revisited: A Photographer's Trail, by Greg Mac Gregor (2003).
The 199-page book, ISBN:
0295983434, edited by Iris Tillman Hill, with an introduction by James P.
Ronda, is published by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
in association with the University of Washington Press. (right: front
cover of Lewis and Clark Revisited: A Photographer's Trail, by Greg
Mac Gregor, photo courtesy University of Washington Press)
University of Washington Press, publisher of Lewis and Clark Revisited: A Photographer's Trail, says:
In a book review in the Oregon Historical Quarterly, Rob Masonis of American Rivers, Seattle, WA writes:
According to Smith Kramer Fine Art Services, Lewis and Clark Revisited: A Trail in Modern Day, Photographs by Greg Mac Gregor is scheduled to tour the following venues after being exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art:
RL editor's notes:
1. from University of Washington Press web site, accessed 12/20/04
2. Oregon Historical Quarterly, Book Review, (Fall, 2004, Vol 105, No. 3)
3. from Smith Kramer Fine Art Services web site, accessed 12/20/04.
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