From Here to the Horizon: Photographs in Honor of Barry Lopez

by Toby Jurovics (Editor), Debra Gwartney (Contribution by), Robert Macfarlane (Contribution by), Wally Mason (Foreword by)

Overview

From Here to the Horizon presents the work of fifty of America’s leading contemporary landscape photographers in honor of the life and influence of Barry Lopez (1945–2020), one of our most revered writers about the landscape and our place within it. Work by each photographer was selected in relation to, and accompanied by, an excerpt from the best-selling book Home Ground: A Guide to the American Landscape, a reader’s A-to-Z guide to American landscape terms, edited by Lopez and Debra Gwartney. With images reflecting landforms or locations and others that are more evocative, the collection creates a portrait of the beauty, diversity, and abundance found in our shared North American topography.

For Lopez, the land was never simply a background for human activity but reflected our aspirations and desires, both as individuals and communities. He had a particular affinity with photographers, and some have compared his precise, crystalline language to the artistry found in photography. As Virginia Beahan noted, “What impressed me so much about Barry’s writing was the slow-moving attention to detail . . . as he tried to make sense of the world.

The collection includes leading photographers such as Virginia Beahan, Barbara Bosworth, Frank Gohlke, Lois Conner, Emmet Gowin, Mark Klett, David Maisel, Laura McPhee, Andrew Moore, Mark Ruwedel, and essays by Debra Gwartney, Robert Macfarlane, and Toby Jurovics. From Here to the Horizon serves as a marker of the admiration of and affection for Lopez and will spark the imagination of places we already know, or hope to one day visit, or may never see but carry with us because of the life-affirming work of writers like Lopez.

Photographers: Robert Adams, Virginia Beahan, Marion Belanger, Michael Berman, Andrew Borowiec, Barbara Bosworth, Joann Brennan, Gregory Conniff, Linda Connor, Lois Conner , Thomas Joshua Cooper, Robert Dawson, Peter de Lory, Lucinda Devlin, Rick Dingus, Terry Evans, Lukas Felzmann, Steve Fitch, Frank Gohlke, Peter Goin, Emmet Gowin, Wayne Gudmundson, Owen Gump, David T. Hanson, Alex Harris, Allen Hess, Ron Jude, Robert Glenn Ketchum, Mark Klett, Stuart Klipper, Peter Latner, David Maisel, Laura McPhee, Andrew Moore, Eric Paddock, Mary Peck, Edward Ranney, Jeff Rich, Meghann Riepenhoff, Mark Ruwedel, Mike Smith, Joel Sternfeld, Martin Stupich, Willy Sutton, Bob Thall , Terry Toedtemeier, Geoff Winningham, Dennis Witmer, and William Wylie

Writers: Jeffery Renard Allen, Kim Barnes, Conger Beasley Jr., Lan Samantha Chang, Michael Collier, Elizabeth Cox, William deBuys, Pamela Frierson, Robert Hass, Patricia Hampl, Emily Hiestand, Linda Hogan, Barbara Kingsolver, William Kittredge, Gretchen Legler, Ellen Meloy, Robert Morgan, Antonya Nelson, Pattiann Rogers, Scott Russell Sanders, Eva Saulitis, Donna Seaman, Carolyn Servid, Kim Stafford, Arthur Sze, D. J. Waldie, Joy Williams, Terry Tempest Williams, and Larry Woiwod

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781595349934
Publisher:	Trinity University Press
Publication date:	02/14/2023
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	969,811
Product dimensions:	10.70(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Toby Jurovics is founding director of the Barry Lopez Foundation for Art & Environment. An expert on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American landscape photography, he has curated more than fifty exhibitions and has served as curator for the Joslyn Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Princeton UniversityArt Museum. He is a graduate of the Universityof North Carolina, Chapel Hill and the Universityof Delaware. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Debra Gwartney is the author of several books, including I Am a Stranger Here Myself and Live Through This, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Gwartney coedited Home Ground: A Guide to the American Landscape with her husband, Barry Lopez. She has published widely in journals, including Granta, The Sun, Tin House, American Scholar, Creative Nonfiction, and VQR, and she is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize. She lives in western Oregon.

Robert Macfarlane is the author of books about people, place, and nature, including Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Places, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot, Landmarks, and Underland: A Deep Time Journey. His books have been translated into thirty languages and have received prizes internationally, including the EM Forster Prize for Literature, the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Modern European Languages and Literature, and the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing. Macfarlane is a fellow of Emmanuel College, Universityof Cambridge and lives in Cambridge, England.

Read an Excerpt

As a writer, Barry Lopez eloquently focused our attention on the intersection of nature and human culture. As an advocate for both the environment and the arts, he encouraged us to use our individual creativity and collective actions to engage in essential discussions about the future of our planet. At Sheldon Museum of Art, we view the opportunity to house and exhibit the Home Ground Collection to honor Barry’s legacy and stay true to our connections to the natural world and one another.

The ubiquity of photographic images and cameras that allow us our own firsthand experience behind the lens give audiences unprecedented familiarity with making pictures of the landscape. Even the most rudimentary awareness of image-making provides insight into the fact that the photographers in this collection do much more than simply click the shutter. As one looks from picture to picture, it becomes increasingly evident that these veteran practitioners seamlessly elevate both their passions for the subject and their processes of physically creating prints. Their reverence for Barry’s work and willingness to generously donate their own

work can never be underestimated, and we will never be able to thank them sufficiently.

Sheldon Museum of Art began collecting photography in 1943 after receiving a gift from the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Since then, each of the museum’s directors has shown a passion for the medium, adding significant works to our holdings. Currently twenty percent of the museum’s 13,000 objects are photographs. Relationships with photographers such as Harry Callahan and a series of invitational exhibitions of photography beginning in the 1960s enabled the museum to be an early collector of works by Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, and Imogen Cunningham, among many others. Past collaborations with Toby Jurovics and respect

for this project also made it easy to welcome this important group of pictures into the collection. Many of these photographers are already represented in Sheldon’s holdings, so, as an object-based teaching museum, we are thrilled to augment existing pictures with these additions. They contribute to our ability to present art that intersects with curriculum, and the exhibition derived from this collection, From Here to the Horizon, supports discussions in fields of study throughout the university.

Table of Contents

Contents

Director’s Foreword: Wally Mason

Geography as Generosity: Robert Macfarlane

Inventing Home Ground: Debra Gwartney

The Home Ground Collection

• Plates
• Land, Light and Film: Toby Jurovics
• Checklist
• Barry Lopez Foundation Acknowledgments
• Home Ground Author Index
• Contributor Biographies