18_IMG_6697-a, from the series Moving Mountains
Penelope Umbrico, 18_IMG_6697-a, from the series Moving Mountains, 2014 (negative); 2015 (print), pigment print, Museum Purchase: Funds provided by the Mark and Hilarie Moore Family Trust in memory of Timothy A. Fallon, © 2014, courtesy of the artist, 2015.44.1
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- Title
18_IMG_6697-a, from the series Moving Mountains
- Related Titles
display title: 18_IMG_6697-a
series (original language): Moving Mountains
- Artist
- Date
2014 (negative); 2015 (print)
- Medium
pigment print
- Edition
edition of 3
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image/sheet: 40 in x 30 in
- Collection Area
Photography; Modern and Contemporary Art
- Category
Photographs
- Object Type
photograph
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Museum Purchase: Funds provided by the Mark and Hilarie Moore Family Trust in memory of Timothy A. Fallon
- Accession Number
2015.44.1
- Copyright
© 2014, courtesy of the artist
- Terms
Umbrico explores the ways in which the web has become the primary source of photo-based information. She sifts through millions of images uploaded to sites such as Craigslist, Flickr, and eBay, often creating large-scale installations that suggest the overwhelming number of photographs being produced worldwide each day.
In her series Moving Mountains, Umbrico applies digital technologies to analog images. She rephotographs traditional mountain landscapes with her iPhone, and then manipulates the images with popular filters. The application of these filters distorts the original photographs in strange and unexpected ways, destabilizing the concept of the analog image and the traditional mountain view.
- Exhibitions
2016 Photography and Contemporary Experience Portland Art Museum
2019 Toughened to Wind and Sun: Women Photographing the Landscape Portland Art Museum
