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A 24-Hour Snapshot of Joshua Tree
Building upon NPCA’s Americans for National Parks partnership with Park Stewardship Through the Arts (PASTA), NPCA’s California Desert Field Office is participating in the new exhibit “Site Lines: 24 Hr Photographing Joshua Tree National Park” at the California Museum of Photography, www.cmp.ucr.edu, which is running June 18 to October 1, 2005.
Museum curator Georg Burwick said, “On April 2, the Museum’s Digital Studio took 4 artists and 20 community members to Joshua Tree National Park to spend a 24 hour period documenting their experience. Bringing so many different photographers to one specific space and limiting the period of documentation to one twenty-four hour period was essential. Each individual artist in the group brought their own particular notions and curiosities to Joshua Tree, and in turn, sought to document this site through divergent focuses of topography, flora, fauna, natural and cultural history, campers and tourists. The radiating lines of sight that spread out from numerous points of departure throughout the landscape create the sense of one simultaneous ‘view’ of a landscape over the course of a day.”
A portion of the exhibit is devoted to organizations with a focus on conservation. The CA exhibit space highlights the ongoing threat of construction of the world’s largest landfill at Joshua Tree National Park’s southeastern boundary. The exhibit links the work of noted industrial and landscape photographers with documentary photos and text of the desert landscape that would be covered in tons of trash.
If you are in the Riverside area, stop by the museum to view this engaging photography exhibit. Can’t make it? Visit NPCA’s website and take action to stop the landfill. To learn more about the influence that artists and photographers have had interpreting wilderness areas and protecting threatened national resources, see the spring edition of NPCA’s National Parks magazine.
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