Tomas van Houtryve: Lines and Lineage

Religious devotion, revolutionary zeal, power-hungry imperialism, the spread of mass consumerism—all of these historical trends are recorded in how Notre Dame has been depicted and its image reproduced.

— Tomas van Houtryve

On April 15, 2019, fire devastated the iconic Notre Dame cathedral of Paris. In 36 Views of Notre Dame, the viewer accompanies Tomas van Houtryve on his fourteen-year journey photographing the Paris icon before and after the fire. Van Houtryve obtained remarkable access to the cathedral to document the devastation of the fire and the reconstruction. Drawing inspiration from Hokusai’s series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, the artist explores the monument in different contexts, seasons and using a wide range of photographic techniques—from 19th-century wet collodion to aerial drones. Accompanying the artist’s works is a multilayered archive of the cathedral, including historic photographs, vernacular images, and text by Victor Hugo.

This book is bilingual in English and French.

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art exhibition Speaking with Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography provides a major institutional examination of contemporary Indigenous photography across the US. This groundbreaking project summarizes how these artists have taken over the conversation about how their cultures and lives are depicted through their dynamic embrace of three interwoven themes: Survivance, Nation, and Indigenous Visuality. The photographers demand that their existence, perspectives, and troubling history be acknowledged, as they enact a key shift away from privileging settler-colonialism, foregrounding instead an Indigenous sense of community and visuality.

This volume reveals and examines these Indigenous artists’ explorations of themes like identity, the contribution of customary practice to contemporary life, belonging, and the assistance that Indigenous worldviews can provide to building healthier relationships with each other and the earth. Like the exhibition, the book is comprised of four sections bridged by transitions and ending with a globalization of the discussion. Texts by key Indigenous scholars are followed by a series of plates illustrating many of the exhibition works. Not an exhibition catalogue per se, Speaking with Light is a statement about the preoccupations and dynamism of Indigenous photography today.

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In sonora, scott b. davis uses combinations of in-camera palladium paper negatives and traditional film-based platinum/palladium prints. The images explore the boundaries of visibility in the darkness and overwhelming light of the Sonoran Desert, creating pictures of landscapes that are both literal and abstract. The light and space found in the open desert are felt in these uniquely rendered images comprised of diptychs, triptychs, and occasional works that include as many as ten or twelve unique images in a series.

By using exposure to intense UV light, Davis has pioneered a process that captures images invisible to the naked eye, creating prints rich in contrast to push the boundaries of the visible spectrum and the perceptual limits of human vision. His prints invite closer, deeper looking at landscapes that seem familiar to us in the daylight but evolve into something altogether different when rendered as abstract records of place. The aim is not to represent the desert as we think we know it, but to evoke an intimate connection with the desert through new perspectives.

Learn more about the accompanying limited edition HERE.

Through images and personal diaries, this remarkable body of work captures the human spirit of the people of Papua New Guinea, one of the world’s last truly wild and unique frontiers.

Foreword by Robert Gardner
Essay by Bob Connolly

Two hardcover volumes in slipcase
8.5 x 10.5 inches
Volume One:
80 duotone, 6 color images / 144 pages
Volume Two:
120 color images / 216 pages
Co-published with Peabody Museum Press

ISBN: 9781934435625