Project: View
From June 2003 to November 2005 the project View, two public binoculars fitted with coloured filters to mimic the 18th century instrument, the Claude Glass, to look at the landscape area around United States Military Academy at West Point, were installed in the Hudson Valley, New York State, US. View helped me to formulate and visualise the relationship between thinking about history, politics, landscape painting, and the mimicking act of taking on the routine as the tourist searching for the Picturesque. The public work of View along with a book was produced by Minetta Brook, New York, US. As part of this project I made a series of photographs from West Point that became part of See and Seen.
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