Desert Light

Desert Light at Throckmorton Fine Art in New York. "...The exhibit includes the work of a number of photographers who have been attracted to deserts: Edward, Brett, and Cole Weston, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Martin Chambi, Lucien Clergue, Elisabeth Sunday, Dirk McDonnell, and Marilyn Bridges. Photographs in the exhibit range from the early part of the twentieth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Despite the variety of images included in the exhibit, they are united by more than their setting in the deserts of North and South America, and North Africa. The powerful light of the desert makes for bold contrasts, giving every photograph, even those of the human figure, an abstract quality - and so an aura of modernism."