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August 2007, ed. 1/3 (from the series Oceanscapes: One View - Ten Years)
August 2007, ed. 1/3 (from the series Oceanscapes: One View - Ten Years)
August 2007, ed. 1/3 (from the series Oceanscapes: One View - Ten Years)

August 2007, ed. 1/3 (from the series Oceanscapes: One View - Ten Years)

Artist (German, born 1960)
Date2007 (printed 2008)
Mediumpigment print
DimensionsImage: 39 1/2 × 59 1/8 in. (100.3 × 150.2 cm)
Support: 43 1/2 × 63 1/8 in. (110.5 × 160.3 cm)
Frame: 47 1/2 × 67 1/2 × 2 in. (120.7 × 171.5 × 5.1 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Thomas Damsgaard, 2010
Object number2010.20
DescriptionSeascape showing the horizon line where the ocean meets the sky. Clouds stream across the sky and dominate the top half of the image.
Text Entries
For information see "Renate Aller:  Oceanscapes, One View-Ten Years", 2010, p.38
Renate Aller's project Oceanscapes-One View-Ten Years consists of numerous seascape photographs all taken from the same place in the Hamptons, Long Island, over the course of 10 years. Each image reflects the different time of day, weather, etc., and also shows the artist making deliberate choices about the proportion of sky to water.

Aller's work relates compositionally to Hiroshi Sugimoto's series of black-and-white photographs of seascapes, which relate to photography as a means of recording time and memory. Time is embodied in Sugimoto's work through each image as the soft focus of the horizon line is a result of a longer time exposure. Time is embodied in Aller's work through the various images from the same site over time. Aller's photograph also relates to Erika Blumenfeld's Antarctica portfolio (Ice Horizons), which is a series of 8 images all taken in Antarctica that shows the horizon between ice field and sky. The nature of the grouping of images and small scale, as well as equal emphasis given to sky and land, contrasts with Aller's approach to the horizon.

Aller has spent time in New Mexico since the early 2000s and published her first monograph with Santa Fe publisher Radius Books. She has looked to the desert landscape in the same way she has the oceanscape, remarking that desert holds the memory of ocean. The museum's image is the work that Aller feels most possesses an ambiguity of desert versus ocean.
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