Victoria Sambunaris: Transformation of a Landscape - Hardcover

by Victoria Sambunaris (Artist), Angie Keefer (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Hernan Diaz (Text by (Art/Photo Books))

Her second monograph with Radius, Victoria Sambunaris: Transformation of a Landscape shares the nuance and majesty of the artist's practice in a large-scale book format.

Based in New York, Victoria Sambunaris structures her life around a photographic journey traversing the American landscape for several months per year. Equipped with a 5×7-inch field camera, a video camera, and research material, she crosses the country alone tenting on top of her car. Her project-based photographs document the continuing transformation of the American landscape with specific attention given to expanding political, technological, and industrial interventions.

Part of her ongoing, twenty-four-year series "Taxonomy of a Landscape," this book encompasses the past decade of work, including collected ephemera that form the essential and incidental elements of her practice as a photographer and researcher. Also featured are archival documentation of experiences and observations on the road, such as snapshots, maps, road logs, journals, geology and history books, mineral specimens, and artifacts.

The work of Victoria Sambunaris is held in numerous public collections across the United States, including the Denver Art Museum (CO), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA), Art Institute of Chicago (IL), International Center of Photography (NY), Center for Creative Photography (AZ), Buffalo AKG Museum (NY), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (CA), Museum of Modern Art (NY), National Museum of Women in the Arts (DC), Brigham Young University Museum of Art (UT), Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VA), Museum of Fine Arts Houston (TX), Nelson-Atkins Museum (MO), and National Gallery of Art (DC).

Author Biography

Victoria Sambunaris (b. 1964, Lancaster, PA) creates large-scale photographs that document the intersection of the natural and the manmade within the American landscape. She earned a BA from Mount Vernon College (1986) and MFA from the Yale University School of Art (1999). She has held teaching positions at Yale University and Sarah Lawrence College and is currently Guest Critic at the Yale School of Architecture. Her work has been exhibited widely in museums and galleries across the US, including the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL; and Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX.