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For most Americans, the western Plains are an unknown region, one passed through on the way to somewhere else. Photographer Peter Brown's large, vibrant color photographs of this remarkable landscape depict a journey that has taken him over a dozen years and many thousands of miles to complete. His photographs of the open spaces at America's heart reveal a complex landscape both beautiful and powerful, meditative and dynamic, vast yet intimate. The photographs make a careful study of the West's land and sky and of the people who inhabit its towns and cities, showing us hte endless variations of color, light, mood, and character that can be found there. In Brown's portraits we see the Plains in all their seasons, an ever-changing landscape of exremes, where weather is a genuine presence and human existence is fragiile but resilient. These provocative images reveal both the drama and the subtle charms of the land and the people of this vast swath of America, which takes in parts of the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, texas, and New Mexico. This exhibition will be on display in the Juanita Kreps Gallery and is drawn from the DoubleTake Book On the Plains. This exhibition is on loan courtesy of the Harris Gallery, Houston.
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