Picturing the Sublime
Photographs from the Joseph and Charlotte Lichtenberg Collection
Eleven photographs document how artists use the camera to capture the sublime beauty and human destruction of the natural world. The exhibition brings together iconic works, contemporary examples, and 19th-century pictures.
Exhibition Images
Lynn Davis, Iceberg XI, Disko Bay, Greenland (2004)
Lynn Davis, Meroe, Sudan (1998)
Richard Misrach, Battleground Point #14 (1999)
About the Exhibition
Eleven photographs document how artists use the camera to capture the sublime beauty and human destruction of the natural world. The exhibition brings together iconic works by Ansel Adams; contemporary examples by Edward Burtynsky, Lynn Davis, and Richard Misrach; and 19th-century pictures by Francis Frith and Carleton Watkins.