Rejecting the Empty Formalism of Landscape Photography – Sean McFarland

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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