Alturas Foundation selected artist Laura McPhee as its initial Artist-in-Residence in 2003. Ms. McPhee worked during the next two years in the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho, capturing images that address Americans' conflicting ideas about landscape and land use, and our values about our relationship to the natural world. From May through September 2006, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, featured her Idaho work in "River of No Return", an exhibition of forty 6' X 8' contemporary photographs from more than eighty she created during her Alturas residency. Recently, Yale University Press published a collection of the Idaho images also entitled River of No Return, which features an introduction by poet laureate Robert Haas.
Source: Alturas Foundation
My personal note on this: you don't really need to go beyond your back yard or your neighborhood to produce great images. In fact someone said once that a great deal of learning about any process is action. I often catch myself dreaming about distant assignments. All those remote places waiting for Mr. Slav and to be explored. How pathetic! The truth lies in hard work spread along a period of systematic and hard work. I am going to pretend I did not write this note, of course. As it is often the case, we are great at giving advice but not necessarily at implementing those ideas in our own lives. And for all of you macho photographers with big cameras: check out Laura McPhee and her big 8x10. Great book. Stunning, poetic images.
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