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Lynn
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| Reminiscent of images produced by 19th century travel photographers such as Francis Frith, the photographs of Lynn Geesaman display solitary, curious worlds. Geesaman accentuates the formal composition of the places that she photographs: English gardens, Italian hillside villages and Belgian canals and roadsides. Her photographs add monumentality and solidity to the landscape, making the ingredients melt into abstraction as value and shape take on increased significance. This is augmented by her printing method, which results in a shadowy glow that permeates the photographs. The overall effect supports Geesaman's romantic notion that there is a reality beyond the empirical. Her photographs serve as evidence of man's attempt to order the natural world; the garden is an example of the wild confined for the pleasure of man. By photographing formal landscapes that have been defined as "rarefied culture," Geesaman is questioning man's authority over nature as well as human concepts of beauty.  Geesaman has received numerous awards, including the Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship in 1984, 1986 and 1990 and a Jerome Foundation award in 1989. She has exhibited in several museum exhibitions, among them "Earthly Delights: Garden Imagery in Contemporary Art" at The Fort Wayne Museum of Art, "Contemporary Landscapes: Selections from the Permanent Collection" at the Walker Art Center and "Reclaiming Paradise: American Women Photograph the Land" at the Tweed Museum of Art. |
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