These images reveal how photography draws narrative and lyrical strength from its capacity to transfigure landscapes or life forms. In its early stages, photography freed painting from its bond to likeness. Today, many photographers have returned to questions originally raised by the arrival of the medium, and to painterly answers in response. Dream Sequence featured works by Kate Breakey, Keith Carter, Graciela Iturbide and Rocky Schenck to show us how photography draws narrative and lyrical strength from its capacity to transfigure landscapes or life forms. Natural spaces, buildings, humans, animals and ordinary objects are made strange and inscrutable.
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Together, these elements conspire to produce the open meanings communicated by these symbols depicted here. Even as they seem to defy interpretation, these images literallly rise from their surfaces to reveal the shapes always looming over the horizon of private and collective dreams. Rich in scope and diversity, these photographic images form a vital and exciting part of the visual culture encompassed by Mexico and the Southwest. Exhibit curated by Roberto Tejada.