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Sea Birds. Photo by Joan Myers |
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Based
on the critically acclaimed book of the same title,
“Salt Dreams” looks at the troubled history of
the obscure Salton Sea, the largest lake in California.
It provides the viewer a bottom-up examination
of the story of the American West.
Once
a dry bowl, this desert basin became a sea by
accident when a canal intake diverting the Colorado
River broke and flooded the
basin in 1905. The river altered its course
and emptied into the sink creating the Salton
Sea.
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Beginning
in 1986, photographer Joan Myers and author William
deBuys made repeated trips to photograph images of the
area including drained gardens, mud volcanoes, an abandoned
yacht club, and ghost town motels.
Themes
of this western saga include water issues, the border,
Native rights, huge development schemes, and dire environmental
problems. The legend is told through Joan Myers' hauntingly
beautiful images. The platinum-palladium photographs,
most of which feature a light watercolor wash, are of
exceptional quality and eerily tell how humans shaped
this landscape and of the dreams that caused people
to migrate to the Salton Sea. Text by deBuys illuminates
the images, telling the story of this amazing region.
See
sample images at www.joanmyers.com
The
“Salt Dreams” exhibition includes:
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19 - 16” x 20” photographs (framed, 22” x 28”)
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13 – 11” x 14” photographs (framed, 20”
x 24”)
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8 – 16” x 30” framed panorama photographs
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Exhibition text panels based on the book
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Exhibition manual
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Press kit
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Education materials
Rental
fee: $2,500 + shipping for an 8-week booking
Security: Moderate
This exhibition is no longer traveled
by CERA. For more information please contact info@ceraexhibits.org. |
