Laura McPhee

Overview

River of No Return, was described by the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art for their 2013 exhibition as “…a journey across geographic place, art historical precedents, and the very history of photographic image making.  What at first glance appear to be bucolic scenes of a pristine world become on closer inspection images of a landscape that at every turn has felt and recorded the impact of human habitation. This insistent narrative of relational dynamics includes evidence of Native populations and European immigrants, ranchers and migrant workers, those who live off the land and those who use it for recreation, and species of mammals and fish both native and reintroduced.”