Art Sinsabaugh (1924–1983) made his artistic breakthrough in the early 1960s with panoramic landscapes of the Midwest that were unprecedented in both form and subject matter. He used a giant 12x20-inch “banquet” camera that allowed him to marry a sublime and expansive 19th-century vision with mid-20th-century formalism. Trained at Chicago’s renowned Institute of Design, Sinsabaugh was a landscape photographer in the broadest sense: he photographed the spaces — both rural and urban — that people inhabit. From his early Midwest prairies to the majestic Southwest work of his last years, his remarkable photographs capture a richly nuanced sense of place and the ever-changing face of the American environment. According to Keith F. Davis of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Art Sinsabaugh “is an artist ripe for rediscovery.”
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