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James Casebere in Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene

Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene features images by 43 artists from around the world who have pushed technological boundaries and developed conceptual approaches to image-making that constitute a rupture in the traditions of the medium of photography. This transformation, which included the widespread use of digital technologies in the early 2000s, coincided with the emergence of the term Anthropocene. Artists used the new tools at their disposal to render a transformed world and developed a new visual language to capture it. By doing so, they created myriad approaches to representing the land, collectively reckoning with what it means to live on Earth in this age.