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Michael Berman: The States Project: New Mexico

As a New Mexican photographic aficionado, it’s hard not to know of Michael Berman’s landscape work, based solely on the significant awards he has earned. Not only was he our resident Guggenheim Fellowship winner in 2008, but he won the Governor’s Award fo

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When I finish a body of work there are always so many images that are left behind, and I hate to see things put away in boxes. It is the death of art. When I was young I wanted to bring a little more life into my work and I used thousands of these images in installations, and then I started to cut things up … my negatives, my prints and the paintings I did on aluminum, and from these fragments I began to make the plates.