Jem Southam, The Pond at Upton Pyne, February 2001, chromogenic dye coupler print, ©Jem Southam, Courtesy of Charles Isaacs Photographs and the Robert Mann Gallery.

NEW HAVEN, CT.- This fall, the Yale Center for British will present an exhibition of large-format photographs by Jem Southam, one of the most significant photographers working in Britain today. Southam creates photographic narratives of landscape transformed by time and human kind. Twenty-one prints from Southam’s Upton Pyne series chronicle six years in the life of an unprepossessing pond near the photographer’s home in Exeter, Devon. From 1996 to 2001, Southam returned regularly to the site, recording the changing seasons and tenants’ attempts to make improvements to the landscape. Shown in the context of the British traditions of landscape representation, in which the Center’s collections are so rich, Southam’s photographs ask viewers to reexamine notions of meaning and beauty in the landscape. Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=21193