Environmental beauty: Earth Now, American Photographers and the Environment

Ansel Adams

If you haven’t visited the New Mexico Museum of Art in Sante Fe lately, now would be the time as there’s an exhibit you won’t want to miss: EARTH NOW.

Bill Owens

Inspired by Ansel Adams; and Eliot Porter’s landscape photography, Earth Now is a collection of important works by American photographers that tell the story of Mother Earth, from man’s less than gentle influence, to his attempt to repair the damages. The pictures stimulate visitors to think about their personal relationship to the environment and to consider the impact of the choices we make as a society and as individuals.

Bremner Benedict

With a growing concern for the environment in this country, the idealized, unpopulated landscapes of both Adams and Porter set the standard for twentieth-century nature photography. Earth Now begins with a collection of works by these two artists and moves on to a group of landscape photographers who came of age in the 1970s.

Greg Mac Gregor

The exhibition’s primary concentration is on work made after the millennium. The pictures stimulate visitors to think about their personal relationship to the environment and to consider the impact of the choices we make as a society and as individuals.

Brad Moore

The second section of the exhibition presents several emerging artists, while others are more established artists doing new bodies of work, some of which have never been exhibited.

Exhibit Information:

New Mexico Museum of Art
107 West Palace Avenue
Santa Fe, NM 87501
505-476-5072

Earth Now Exhibit

Richard Misrach