Picturing Eden at the Johnson Museum

If you’re in the neighborhood, get on over to the Johnson Museum before March 22 for the Picturing Eden exhibit. From the Cornell Chronicle:

Featuring more than 150 photographs, the exhibition was organized by the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester. It includes the work of 37 artists from six countries, from well-known photographers Sally Mann, Mike and Doug Starn and Adam Fuss to such emerging artists as Jo Whaley, Alec Soth and Lori Nix.

“While the garden provides us with a place to relax, play, contemplate and restore, it can also be a site of loneliness and despair — a reminder of that original lost innocence,” said Nancy Green, the Johnson Museum’s Gale and Ira Drukier Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs. “The photographers in this exhibition are exploring the notions of the garden as a paradise, serving as nurturer, a vision of exquisite beauty or a powerful force — and our attempt to capture this Eden.”

One of the featured artists is probably my favorite PhotoShopper, Maggie Taylor. (I haven’t been yet, so I don’t know if these works are featured.)

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Girl with a Bee Dress

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Night Garden

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The Patient Gardener

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