Figures in a Western Landscape – Lens

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Figures in a Western Landscape

Jesse Chehak was born in the West, but returned to chronicle it with a prospector’s eye. Celina Fang traces the journey.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/showcase-194/

Jesse Chehak has traveled through the West with a pioneer’s spirit of exploration, possibility, uncertainty and longing — conveying a Western identity cobbled together from history, clichés and surprising or quotidian elements, all of it set within the region’s imposing natural landscapes.