ANTARCTICA: PASSION AND OBSESSION
An exhibition of 82 framed photographs from the internationally
acclaimed 27-pound book ANTARCTICA, by Pat and Rosemarie Keough is
available for openings July 2008 through to 2010. Curated by Lafayette
College, and subsequently expanded to double in size by the University
of Colorado at Boulder, the exhibit then travelled to Colorado
Christian University and is now at Western Washington University. In
Europe a second similar exhibit has been presented in Budapest,
Bratislava, Innsbruck, and upcoming in Vienna. The motivation for the
exhibitions is to share this body of work (awarded World's Best Nature
Photography and World's Best Photo Book 2005) beyond the collectors of
the 950 copies of this limited edition tome.
Please browse the photos of actual exhibitions linked from
http://www.keough-art.com/ExhibitionLectures.html
and also details
http://www.library.wwu.edu/ref/subjguides/antarctica/antarctica.htm
Cost is shipping plus an honorarium of the institute's discretion to
the photographers. Further information about the exhibit and the tome
is at www.keough-art.com
For inquiries about the exhibit, contact Rosemarie Keough, at
[log in to unmask] and telephone 250-653-4993.
Excerpt from the UC-Boulder Press Release:
ANTARCTICA - PASSION AND OBSESSION' EXHIBIT AT CU-BOULDER OPENS NOV. 1
2007
Award-winning photographs by two of the world's top polar region
photographers, Pat and Rosemarie Keough, will be on display at the
University of Colorado at Boulder from Nov. 1 through Dec. 31.
The traveling exhibit, "Antarctica - Passion and Obsession,"
illustrates the extreme landscape of the world's 7th continent and is
composed of more than 80 images from the Keoughs' acclaimed book
ANTARCTICA, which won 11 international gold honors.
The Keoughs' work, which captures the rare beauty of Antarctica's
mountains, glaciers and wildlife, is the result of two austral summers
spent on the Antarctic continent.
In a statement about their photography experience the Keoughs said, "We
keenly felt the immensity of Antarctica and also a certain
vulnerability... Antarctica is a harsh land of extremes . . . and of
superlatives. It is the coldest and the windiest of the seven
continents, as well as the most isolated.
"Antarctica is the highest of all continents with an average elevation
over triple that of North America. Antarctica is also a desert; and
although it is the driest of continents, Antarctica's great polar ice
cap smothers nearly the entire landscape locking 70 percent of the
world's freshwater in ice and snow. . . . Our photographs, many of
which we composed together using one camera on one tripod, reflect our
shared emotional response to what could easily be construed as
overwhelming stimulus."
The exhibit has been brought to the CU-Boulder campus in celebration of
the 40th anniversary of the CU-NOAA Cooperative Institute for Research
in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES. CIRES is the oldest and largest
of the NOAA cooperative institutes and one of two in Colorado.
"We are delighted to be able to share the Keough's stunning photographs
of Antarctica with the public," said CIRES director Konrad Steffen, an
expert on Greenland and climate change. "Several CIRES scientists
conduct research in Antarctica, and many of us also study the effects
of global climate change in the polar regions."
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