OCEANO (for seven generations)
A monograph by Lana Z Caplan
press release
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About the Book
-128 pages, 70 b/w and color images
-Contributing essay by yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini Northern Chumash Tribal Chair Mona Olivas Tucker and son Matthew Goldman
-Contributing essay by Hanna Rose Shell, Associate Professor of Critical and Curatorial studies, and Director of the Stan Brakhage Center for Media Arts in Boulder, Colorado.
-Published by Kehrer Verlag
Lana Z Caplan spent seven-years researching and collaborating with the community of Oceano, California and yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini Northern Chumash Tribal leadership, to produce a conceptual collection of histories from the Oceano Dunes. These are the dunes of Weston’s modernist photographs; of Cecil B. DeMille’s recently excavated and restored sphinxes from his 1923 Ten Commandments movie set, buried in the sand after filming; of the nearly lost Northern Chumash tribe; of the Dunites – the artists, poets, nudists, and mystics squatting in dune shacks in the 1920’s-40’s – who hosted Weston during his shooting trips; and of the 1.5 million ATV riders who visit each year, inciting a decade-long legal battle with nearby residents over air quality.
Oceano offers both an interrogation of and a feminist response to photographic conventions regarding landscape and representation, confronts historic approaches to portraiture by enlisting the past and present inhabitants in performative and co-constructed moments, and questions legacies of colonization, utopian ideologies, and the future for the politically charged and environmentally threatened Oceano Dunes.
Recent/Upcoming events:
- February 17th, 2024 – 2pm – RI Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI – Artist Talk and Book Signing
- March 7th, 2024 – 7pm EST – Zoom panel discussion – in conjunction with BEHIND THE LENS: DOCUMENTS FOR THE 21st CENTURY, on view Feb 15 – March 15, RI Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI, Register here
- April 27th, 2024 – 10:30am – Medium Festival of Photography, San Diego – Artist Talk and Book Signing
- May 24th, 2024 – 6 – 7:30pm – Restricted Goods, Santa Barbara – Talk and Book Signing
- June 21, 2024 – 6:30 – 8pm – Griffin Museum of Photography – Talk and Book Signing
- January 25 – March 1, 2025 – Harvey Milk Photo Center – Solo Exhibition
Recent Reviews/Press:
About Photography
Photobook Journal
Mediterraneo Fotografia
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