Mountains


  • Photographer
    Peter Croteau
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2011
  • Technical Info
    8x10 large format

Spaces of dross are the in-between waste spaces in the landscape. Left as a result of sprawl, these spaces are in a constant state of flux between use and disuse. I explore these mundane spaces using the view camera as an apparatus that can reframe, order the world, and create images of dross that also function as markers of the sublime. In focusing on these spaces, but treating my camera more like a canvas, I set up a dualistic relationship between earth and sky in order reference painterly representations of the sublime. This relationship speaks to a high/low binary that exists in the American landscape between spaces of preservation and spaces of waste, humans’ free will to shape land and its use, as well as the ideologies that define the way we understand natural forms.

You can create multiple entries, and pay for them at the same time.
Just go to your History, and select multiple entries that you would like to pay for.