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- Sale 1131
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Dec 6 | 2:00 PM EST
Live
| Chicago
Sale 1131
| Chicago
| Chicago
Estimate$2,500 – $3,500
Provenance:
Patti Gilford Fine Art, Chicago
Before I went to Greenland, I imagined that my work would be about describing the Jakobshavn Glacier for an audience back home, much like photographer William Henry Jackson did in 1871, when he accompanied geologist Dr. Ferdinand Hayden to Yellowstone, bringing back gorgeous photographs of that uncharted territory.
My reality was different. I did aerially photograph, from a helicopter, the ice fjord leading to the Jakobshavn Glacier and I did photograph the glacier front and its surface, but what I saw was confusing and frustrating. I could not understand what I was seeing because there were no human markers below me on the ice. I had no sense of scale. Was that chunk of ice twenty stories high or knee high?
...My own frustration in trying to understand the scale of the glacier pointed out to me that understanding the scale of climate change is equally difficult."
Terry Evans
Other examples of Evans's complex aerial photographs, documenting the human impact on the environment, can be found in this sale – lots 102 and 134.
Ice Fjord Leading to Jakobshevn, Glacier #4
signed, titled, dated and numbered 5/10 in pencil on the verso.
Ice Fjord Leading to Jakobshevn, Glacier #1
signed, titled, dated and numbered 5/10 in pencil on the verso.
Ice Fjord Leading to Jakobshavn Glacier# 6
signed, titled, dated and numbered 1/10 in pencil on the verso.
Ice Fjord Leading to Jakobshavn Glacier #7
signed, titled, dated and numbered 4/10 in pencil on the verso.
Ice Fjord Leading to Jakobshevn, Glacier, 2008
signed, titled, dated and numbered 4/10 in pencil on the verso.
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