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Lake Erie
Beautifully captured images of the unique and imperiled landscape of Lake Erie

For over a decade, large-format photographer Lynn Whitney has captured Lake Erie’s Ohio shores. The beautifully rendered images contained in Lake Erie reveal a sense of diverse communities, changing landscapes, and deep histories of a place. Inspired by Frank Gohlke’s work on Lake Erie, Whitney’s distinct eye acts as a guide through this unique and imperiled landscape; her images ask what the chances are for our collective future and offer hope in the effort of noticing.

Included are Nicholas Nixon’s personal account of Whitney’s practice, a cultural exploration by curator Robin Reisenfeld, and an essay by biologist George Bullerjahn, which chronicles the environmental and geological characteristics of the lake. As a collection, these photographs and texts are reminders of the past we share; of what we have done and continue to do to the lake and to each other.

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Lake Erie
Beautifully captured images of the unique and imperiled landscape of Lake Erie

For over a decade, large-format photographer Lynn Whitney has captured Lake Erie’s Ohio shores. The beautifully rendered images contained in Lake Erie reveal a sense of diverse communities, changing landscapes, and deep histories of a place. Inspired by Frank Gohlke’s work on Lake Erie, Whitney’s distinct eye acts as a guide through this unique and imperiled landscape; her images ask what the chances are for our collective future and offer hope in the effort of noticing.

Included are Nicholas Nixon’s personal account of Whitney’s practice, a cultural exploration by curator Robin Reisenfeld, and an essay by biologist George Bullerjahn, which chronicles the environmental and geological characteristics of the lake. As a collection, these photographs and texts are reminders of the past we share; of what we have done and continue to do to the lake and to each other.

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Lake Erie

Lake Erie

Overview

Beautifully captured images of the unique and imperiled landscape of Lake Erie

For over a decade, large-format photographer Lynn Whitney has captured Lake Erie’s Ohio shores. The beautifully rendered images contained in Lake Erie reveal a sense of diverse communities, changing landscapes, and deep histories of a place. Inspired by Frank Gohlke’s work on Lake Erie, Whitney’s distinct eye acts as a guide through this unique and imperiled landscape; her images ask what the chances are for our collective future and offer hope in the effort of noticing.

Included are Nicholas Nixon’s personal account of Whitney’s practice, a cultural exploration by curator Robin Reisenfeld, and an essay by biologist George Bullerjahn, which chronicles the environmental and geological characteristics of the lake. As a collection, these photographs and texts are reminders of the past we share; of what we have done and continue to do to the lake and to each other.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783969001127
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
Publication date: 09/05/2023
Pages: 112
Product dimensions: 11.41(w) x 9.45(h) x (d)

About the Author

Lynn Whitney is Associate Professor, emerita, School of Art, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. She served as Associate Director, 2017–2020, Studio Division Chair, 2006–2017 and head of Photography from 1987–2020. She earned her BA in American Culture Studies from Boston University, her BFA in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, her MFA from Yale UniversitySchool of Art. Whitney’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States and is included in collections, The Toledo Museum of Art, and the George Gund Foundation among them.

Interviews

Making photographs are my means to pose and then, as thoughtfully as possible, examine the world and our place. The landscape figures prominently in all of my pictures and, as it is considered by some, to align with the female, these are often seen together, highlighting contemporary issues.

I use a large format and medium format film camera. Providing both a cover and a presence for whatever or whomever I might encounter, it’s generosity extends to my content.

My early pictures explored the farm, the military, the convent, and family. I was and remain curious about how individual beings remain as such within those constructions and commit to serve concerns larger than themselves. I wondered and marveled at their courage - through choice or lack of option - to dedicate themselves to a life long endeavor.

My recent work, focused on Lake Erie, ties to earlier interests. Two commissions, the construction of the FIGG design Skyway bridge over the Maumee River (Toledo Ohio), from the Toledo Museum of Art, the other, Lake Erie along Cuyahoga county (Cleveland), from the George Gund Foundation, helped broaden and provided depth to my cultural questions and concerns.

Those concerns traveled with me to the Midwest, over thirty years ago, from my home where Henry David Thoreau lived, and wrote : "A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature." Women and water are and have been seen as an endless resource to use, misuse, abuse. Placed together the pictures speak about fragility, vulnerability, and the seemingly endless capacity to ‘take it’.  The nuances and qualities of the lake or the land mirror what we have done, to it, each other and ask what the chances for our collective future might be.

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