David Maisel’s monograph Proving Ground (published by Radius Books and co-published with Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art) investigates Dugway Proving Ground, a U.S. Army facility established in 1943, located in the Utah desert, 85 miles from Salt Lake City. The term “Proving Ground” specifies an area of land designated for the military purposed to […]
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Bremner Benedict: Hidden Waters
Bremner Benedict is a photographer based in West Concord, MA and Tucson, AZ. Her work addresses the shifting connections that humans have with landscape and the impact they are causing within the natural environment. In her most recent series Hidden Waters : The Uncertain Future of Desert Springs, (2014-ongoing) Benedict documents desert springs within the American […]
Art + Science: Nature and Nurture: Howard Lewis
It has been medically proven that when immersed within nature, one’s anger, fear and stress tends to melt away. Nature heals. Even placing a plant indoors can bring one closer to nature. For me, being in the mountains, desert and near the ocean, I can find my personal place of sanctuary. Yet, Mother Nature doesn’t […]
Lauren Orchowski: The Observable Universe, Near and Far
The Observable Universe, Near and Far, by Lauren Orchowski, was selected from our most recent call-for-submissions. I was able to interview Lauren to gain further insight into this project. The Observable Universe, Near and Far In astrophysics the “observable universe” is recognized as a celestial sphere containing all matter that can be presently viewed from Earth. As humans, we make conscious […]
Seeing Science by Marvin Heiferman
“Science photography grounds us in the particulars of our earthly and extraterrestrial adventures, and astounds us when it reveals what lies beyond the parameters of sight, imagination and human control. -Marvin Heiferman Seeing Science: How Photography Reveals the Universe is a book by Marvin Heiferman (including a forward by former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly) published by Aperture. […]
Art + Science: Blood and Kin: Alison Taggart-Barone
Alison Taggart-Barone is a photographer in the San Francisco Bay Area. In her series Ova Mundi, she documents intricately hand painted eggs that have been left over time to decay and transform into objects of beauty and repulsion. The eggs themselves symbolize the passage of time, and how time affects us all. Through metaphor, these […]