Thomas Joshua Cooper: The World's Edge
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles
CA 90036, USA
September 22 2019 – February 2 2020
For 50 years, Thomas Joshua Cooper has been making photographs outdoors. Often realised through intense physical travel to remote and isolated sites, these stunning, large-scale, black-and-white photographs encapsulate the psychological impact of the place through geographic and atmospheric details.
The exhibition, comprising 65 large-scale and 75 8 x 10 inch black-and-white photographs, showcase Cooper’s The Atlas of Emptiness and Extremity, The World’s Edge, the Atlantic Basin Project, which he first embarked upon in 1987, to chart the Atlantic Basin from the extreme points of each north, south, east, and west coordinate.
Using a 19th-century Agfa Ansco view camera, his singular exposure of each site includes neither a horizon line nor the terrain below his feet, but rather the surrounding “sea spaces” that are unique, dissimilar, and not readily identifiable. For him each place is a point of departure allowing contemplation of the ocean’s emptiness beyond the extreme points of the land.
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