Some of the most striking photographs are of ordinary places and common plants. These curations look at Stephen Shore's small towns and roadside landscapes, Karl Blossfeldt's close studies of plant forms, and Subhankar Banerjee's photographs of the Arctic.
Karl Blossfeldt was a German photographer and sculptor best known for his close-up photographs of plants and living things, published in 1929 as Urformen der Kunst.
Subhankar Banerjee's photographs of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's tundra, caribou and seasons, and the fight over protecting it concern a national wildlife refuge in northeastern Alaska, United States, on traditional Iñupiaq and Gwich'in lands. The refuge covers 19,286,722 acres (78,050.59 km2), and potential oil drilling threatens the Porcupine caribou herd's calving grounds.
Review: Uncommon Places, Stephen Shore, 2005; Stephen Shore : New American Photography, dir. Ralph Goertz, 2010 is a review describing American Surfaces as a diary of a photographic trip, in which Shore photographed almost every meal, person, waiter or waitress, bed, and toilet, as well as streets and buildings.
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