Now open at the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia, is Robert Glenn Ketchum & Eliot Porter: On Seeing Color, a new photography exhibition that will highlight works from the two prominent nature photographers.
Robert Glenn Ketchum, Endless Meanders, 1998, Fuji Crystal Archive print, from NO PEEDLE MINE Campaign. © Robert Glenn Ketchum.
The show will center around the works of Ketchum, but also dedicate significant space to the works of Porter, Ketchum’s mentor. Porter was known for his delicate and evocative works within nature. He was also one of the early pioneers of color photography, so much that he was nicknamed the “Ansel Adams of color photography.” Urged forward by Alfred Stieglitz, Porter worked with the Sierra Club, photographed Glen Canyon before the flooding for the Glen Canyon Dam and even helped Congress pass the Wilderness Act of 1964.
Robert Glenn Ketchum, Upper Lake Cohasset, Harriman State Park, 1983, Cibachrome print, from The Hudson River and the Highlands. © Robert Glenn Ketchum.The two photographers met when Ketchum was attending UCLA and a teacher suggested he reach out to Porter for his questions regarding color. Not only did Porter respond to the younger artist, but they struck up a friendship that lasted until Porter’s death in 1990.
“The images of each artist are striking, but Ketchum reminds us that they are more than ‘just pretty pictures.’ Ketchum and Porter intentionally created works for environmental advocacy, using color and scale to galvanize their audiences,” the museum says. “Perhaps these images may continue to motivate others by showing the breathtaking beauty and scale of the American landscape and the importance of protecting it before it is lost.”
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