Rebecca Skinner

"Quiet Morning", landscape, black and white, canoe, marsh, Cape Cod, photograph

2012

Rebecca Skinner’s “Quiet Morning” is part of her "On and Off the Trail" series documenting the beautiful landscapes of New England. The 16 x 24 inch sepia toned black and white photo...

Rebecca Skinner’s “Lonely Tree” is part of her "Winter Trees" series documenting the beauty of the New England landscape in the winter. A solitary, leafless tree stands on a gently r...

This large-scale black and white landscape is part of artist Ron Tarver's long-term, ongoing project, " Land, Sea, Air," that explores the wide-ranging system of wetlands in the US National Wildlife Refuge. It depicts the wetlands of the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, one of the largest remaining expanses of tidal salt marsh in the mid-Atlantic region. The refuge, located along the coast of Delaware, is mostly marsh, but also includes freshwater impoundments and upland habitats that are managed for other wildlife. Through his elegantly rendered naturalistic photos that verge on abstraction, Tarver investigates the delicate nature of the ecosystem, the government's precarious conservation policies, and our relationship to these unique spaces. This print is also in the collection of the Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA. It ships rolled in a 36 "x 6" tube. Ron Tarver is a professor of Studio Art specializing in Photography at Swarthmore College. He served as staff photographer at the Philadelphia Inquirer for 32 years, and his work has appeared in National Geographic, Life, Time, Newsweek, The New Yorker, and Black and White Magazine. He is co-author of the book We Were There: Voices of African American Veterans, published by Harper Collins in 2004, which was accompanied by a traveling exhibition. Tarver shares a 2012 Pulitzer Prize at the Inquirer for his work on a series documenting school violence in the Philadelphia public school system, and was nominated for a second Pulitzer in 2013 for a series exploring dog...

Massachusetts Mist A heron in his chosen hunting spot on a misty New England summer morning in Marion, Massachusetts USA. by Stuart Möller Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-In...