Laura McPhee Last updated June 08, 2025 American photographer (born 1958)
Laura McPhee
Born June 8, 1958 Known for Photography Awards Guggenheim Fellowship, Fulbright Scholars Fellowship, New England Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Website lauramcphee .com
Laura McPhee (born 1958) is an American photographer known for making detailed large-format photographs of the cultural landscape. Her images raise questions about human effects on the environment and the nature of humankind's complex and contested relationship to the earth. [ 1]
Work McPhee is noted for her large-scale photographs of landscapes and portraits of people who live and work in them. [ 2] McPhee's work is concerned with place and the ways we define and manage our relationship to the land. McPhee's work has been exhibited both in the United States and abroad.
Her body of work River of No Return was exhibited at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 2006 and at Kansas City's Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in 2013. A monograph of the same title was published by Yale University Press in 2008. Her first monograph, No Ordinary Land (in collaboration with Virginia Beahan) was published by Aperture in 1998. [ 2]
McPhee's most recent book, The Home and the World: A View of Calcutta (2014), explores the weight of colonialism through images of the architecture of that city and portraits of passersby. It was published by Yale University Press. Alan Thomas wrote about this work in Places Journal . [ 6]
Exhibitions 1994 – Photographer's Gallery , London, England [ 7] 1995 – pARTs Gallery, Minneapolis, MN [ 7] 1995 – Rose Art Museum , Brandeis University, Waltham, MA [ 7] 1998 – Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY [ 8] 1999 – No Ordinary Land , Burden Gallery, Aperture, New York, NY 1999 – No Ordinary Land , Massachusetts College of Art , Boston, MA 1999 – No Ordinary Land , Carnegie Museum of Art , Pittsburgh, PA [ 7] 2001 – No Ordinary Land , Columbus Art Museum , Columbus, OH 2001 – No Ordinary Land , Teton Regional, Jackson, Wyoming [ 7] 2001 – No Ordinary Land , Cornell University Art Museum, Ithaca, New York [ 7] 2002 – No Ordinary Land , Vision Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel [ 7] 2002 – Interior Calcutta, II Gabbiano Gallery, Rome, Italy [ 7] 2004 – The Home and the World, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA [ 7] 2005 – No Ordinary Land , Sam Noble Museum , Norman, OK [ 7] 2005 – Kolkata , Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY [ 2] 2006 – Silent Steps , Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA [ 7] 2006 – River of No Return - Museum of Fine Arts Boston [ 9] [ 10] 2007 – River of No Return , Boise Art Museum , Boise, ID, 2007 (solo) Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho [ 7] 2008 – Two Canyons, Two Years Later , Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA 2008 – River of No Return , Gail Gibson Gallery, Seattle WA [ 2] 2009 – Guardians of Solitude , Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY 2009 – Guardians of Solitude , Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID [ 11] 2011 – River of No Return , Navarro Gallery, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio TX 2011 White Clouds, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID [ 11] 2011 – When We Talk About Love , Carroll & Sons, [ 12] Boston, MA 2012 – Push - G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA [ 13] 2012 – Looking Back at Earth: Contemporary Environmental Photography from the Hood Museum of Art's Collection , Dartmouth College , Hanover, NH [ 8] 2012 – A Generous Medium: Photography at Wellesley College , 1972-2012, Davis Museum, Wellesley, MA , 2012 [ 8] 2012 – America In View: Photography from 1865 to Now , Rhode Island School of Design Museum , Providence, RI [ 8] 2013 – River of No Return - Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art , Kansas City, MO [ 14] 2015 – The Home and the World: a View of Calcutta , Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID [ 11] 2015 – The Home and the World: a View of Calcutta , Carroll and Sons Gallery, Boston, MA [ 11] 2015 – The Home and the World: a View of Calcutta , Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY [ 11] 2016 – Selections , Bakalar & Paine Galleries, Massachusetts College of Art , Boston, MA [ 8] 2016 – Big: Photographs from the Collection , The Cleveland Museum of Art , Cleveland, OH [ 8] 2016 – Changing Frontiers , The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA [ 8] 2017 – Samuel F.B. Morse 's Gallery of the Louvre and the Art of Invention , The Peabody Essex Museum , Salem, MA [ 8] 2018 – Ansel Adams in Our Time, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts , Boston , MA [ 15] 2019 – Women Take the Floor, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts , Boston , MA [ 16] 2020 – Mirage: Energy, Water and Creativity in the Great Basin, Boise Art Museum , Boise, ID [ 17] 2020 – Loosely Stated , ROSEGALLERY, Santa Monica, CA [ 18] 2021 – What We Do in The Shadows, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum , Lincoln, MA [ 19] 2021 – Ansel Adams in Our Time, Portland Art Museum , Portland, OR [ 20] 2021 – The Expanded Landscape, The Getty , Los Angeles, CA [ 21] Publications Publications authored by Laura McPhee 1998 - No Ordinary Land, Laura McPhee and Virginia Beahan , Aperture ISBN 0893817333 2000 - Girls: Ordinary Girls and Their Extraordinary Pursuits, Laura McPhee, Jenny McPhee and Martha McPhee , Random House ISBN 0375501673 2008 - River of No Return, Laura McPhee, Yale University Press ISBN 9780300141009 2009 - Guardians of Solitude, Laura McPhee, ISBN 0956146104 2011 - Gateway: Visions for an Urban National Park , ISBN 1568989555 2014 - The Home and the World: A View of Calcutta , Laura McPhee, Yale University Press [ 6] 2018 - Lost, Laura McPhee, Kris Graves Projects . OCLC 1035555819 Publications including photographs by Laura McPhee 1996 - Flesh and Blood: Photographers’ Images [ 22] ISBN 0948797223 2018 - Eye on the West: Photography and the Contemporary West, George Miles, Yale University Press , ISBN 9780300232851 2018 - The Photographer in the Garden, Sarah Anne McNear, Jamie M. Allen, Aperture , ISBN 9781597113731 References ↑ Knudsen, Stephen (2013-07-06). "Laura McPhee: River of No Return" . Huffington Post . Retrieved 2018-03-28 . 1 2 3 4 5 "LAURA MCPHEE | Benrubi Gallery | New York City based Art Gallery specializing in Photography" . benrubigallery.com . Retrieved 2018-03-28 . ↑ "Laura McPhee" . lauramcphee.com . Retrieved 2018-03-28 . ↑ "Pryde Brown Photography" . princetonol.com . Retrieved 2018-03-28 . ↑ "Laura McPhee" . MassArt . 2017-01-27. Retrieved 2018-03-28 . 1 2 Thomas, Alan; McPhee, Laura (2014-12-08). "Across the Threshold: Laura McPhee's Calcutta" . Places Journal (2014). doi : 10.22269/141208 . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Laura McPhee - 51 Artworks, Bio & Shows on Artsy" . www.artsy.net . Retrieved 2018-04-04 . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Laura McPhee" . MassArt . 2017-01-27. Retrieved 2018-04-02 . ↑ "Exhibition – Laura McPhee – River of No Return" . Museum of Fine Arts Boston . ↑ Boulanger, S (2006). "Laura McPhee: River of No Return at the Museum of Fine Arts". 1 2 3 4 5 "LAURA MCPHEE | Benrubi Gallery | New York City based Art Gallery specializing in Photography" . benrubigallery.com . Retrieved 2018-04-02 . ↑ "CARROLL AND SONS ART GALLERY" . www.carrollandsons.net . Retrieved 2018-04-04 . ↑ "PUSH: Group Exhibitions" . G. Gibson Gallery . ↑ Knudsen, Stephen (6 July 2013). "Laura McPhee: River of No Return" . Huffington Post . ↑ "Ansel Adams in Our Time" . Museum of Fine Arts, Boston . Retrieved 2022-02-23 . ↑ "Women Take the Floor" . Museum of Fine Arts, Boston . Retrieved 2022-02-23 . ↑ "Mirage: Energy, Water and Creativity in the Great Basin" . Boise Art Museum . Retrieved 2022-02-23 . ↑ "Loosely Stated | 18 September 2020 - 2 April 2021 - Overview" . ROSEGALLERY . Retrieved 2022-02-23 . ↑ "What We Do in the Shadows" . The Trustees of Reservations . Retrieved 2022-02-23 . ↑ "Ansel Adams in Our Time" . Portland Art Museum . Retrieved 2022-02-23 . ↑ "The Expanded Landscape" . Getty Museum . Retrieved 2022-02-23 . ↑ George, Alice Rose; Heyman, Abigail; Hoffman, Ethan (1992). Flesh & blood: photographers' images of their own families . Manchester, UK; New York: Cornerhouse Publications; Picture Project. ISBN 9780948797224 . OCLC 27742785 . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Laura McPhee Statement | Gail Severn Gallery" . www.gailseverngallery.com . Retrieved 2018-04-04 . External links
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