Artist Sean McFarland considers why we continuously attempt to capture nature through photography. Unpacking his own photographic works, the 2017 SECA Art Award winner discusses the medium’s inherent inadequacy as a means of representing the landscape, as well as the genre’s problematic cultural legacies.
This video originally appeared on sfmoma.org as “Sean McFarland: Landscape photography as failed record”
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