“A Photographer’s Encounter with the American West”

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“A Photographer’s Encounter with the American West”
An illustrated talk by Karen Halverson

Thursday, April 22, 2010, 4:00 pm

Room 38, Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street, New Haven

For nearly 40 years, Karen Halverson has traveled through Southern California, the Colorado River Valley and the basin and range country of Nevada, Utah, and Arizona, making a series of color photographs that reflect her unsentimental appreciation of the intersection of nature, technology, and people in the American West. One of America’s few women landscape photographers, Halverson has created a series of images, sometimes wryly humorous, often biting, that add a contemporary chapter to the visual record of the West begun by 19th century photographers Carleton Watkins, Timothy O’Sullivan, William Henry Jackson, and John Hillers. Her photographs of the Colorado River, of Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles, and of the vast interior basin of the inter-mountain West have evolved over the years in response to her experience with the West, its residents, and the people who think about the region’s challenges and potential. A selection of Ms. Halverson’s color prints will be available to be seen following her talk.

The talk is free and open to the public. For more information about Ms. Halverson’s photography, consult http://www.karenhalverson.com/

The exhibition “From Aaron to Withington: Selections from Peter Palmquist’s Collection of Women Photographers” will be open for viewing during the library’s regular hours through June 26, 2010.