Wyoming
Sheet: 14 × 10 15/16 inches (35.56 × 27.78 cm)
New Acquisitions to the Hallmark Photographic Collection, 1980-1983. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 1 – May 1, 1983.
Photographic Abstraction. Utah State University, Logan, UT, Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, Fine Art Center/Cheekwood, Nashville, TN, Montgomery Museum of Art, AL, 1986-1987, no cat.
Twentieth-Century Photographers: Selections from the HPC. Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH, March 28 - April 27, 1996, no cat.
In Wyoming, Kenneth Josephson calls attention to the way we understand landscape photographs as representations of their subjects. Referencing grand Western scenes pictured by photographers such as Ansel Adams, Josephson interrupts what would otherwise be a seamless view by extending a handheld ruler into the frame. "Measuring" the mountain range in inches rather than miles, Josephson reminds us that we are looking at a photographic translation of a landscape, rather than appreciating the photograph as an unmediated window onto the world.
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005
