Bradford Washburn

Exploratory spirit is what sets apart Bradford Washburn’s photography from other landscape photographs. Throughout eight decades of his lifetime, the American explorer, mountaineer, cartographer and artist travelled the world, documenting landscapes. Pictures of the Grand Canyon, the Alps, the Matterhorn and mount McKinley, initially taken to serve as a source of information about the lay of the land, distinguished themselves through remarkable composition and detail – ‘they stand alone as artistic monuments in their own right.’ The exhibition contains selected photographic works, as well as Washburn’s notebook and paintings.