A Natural Subject: Photographs from the Permanent Collection
11/11/2001 - 1/20/2002

Featuring approximately 35 works from the Norton Museum of Art's permanent collection, this exhibition represents a broad range of photographers' responses to the subject of nature. Selected landscapes demonstrate the notion of an infinite expanse of nature on the one hand, and the picturesque, framed vista on the other. In several images, the presence of the human figure suggests ways in which nature may be cultivated or domesticated. The isolation of individual specimens of flora and fauna in still other images may recall the traditional still life, scientific documentation, modernis abstraction, or surrealist juxtaposition. Among the photographers included in A Natural Subject are Karl Blossfeldt, Catherine Chalmers, Robert Mapplethorpe, Baron Adolph de Meyer, Edward Steichen and Hiroshi Sugimoto. A Natural Subject: Photographs from the Permanent Collection is organized by the Norton Museum of Art.