"Why Landscape Now?" A gallery discussion with artist George Kimmerling and art historian/curator Erin Barnett

Forty years ago, Deborah Bright published her groundbreaking article “Of Mother Nature and Marlboro Men” in Exposure magazine, the journal of the Society of Photographic Education. In it she asks, “[W]hat can photographs of landscapes tell us about how we construct our sense of the world.” Although much has been written since about landscape photography and its function in an economy of pictures, her question is still relevant. In this open-ended conversation, artist George Kimmerling and art historian and curator Erin Barnett discuss what it means to photograph landscapes now and why the theoretical issues Bright raised still resonate.