Agriculture Series

• Photographer
  James Cooper, United States
• Website
  http://jamescooperimages.net

About the Agriculture Series (ongoing)

Each field, grove or structure has, as the German lyricist Christian Morgenstern (1871–1914) said about
landscapes: “Every landscape has its own particular soul, just like any human you might meet.” This series
explores these souls and what happens to them.

A plowed field, visually lyrical, seemingly barren, from whose soul arises a crop or grove which in time is
harvested. Then sometimes plowed again. Machines, pipes, laborers. Mechanization and life. Over and over.

Straight lines of trees, grapes, vegetables, fruit. A mostly denuded, except perhaps for a few sentinels left
standing, plowed hill. Countless numbers of large leaves standing on the ground dancing in the wind.

• Biography
  American, born 1952, Torrance, CA. Lives and works, Petaluma, CA. Mostly self-taught. Working only with traditional transparency film or print film in 35mm and 645 formats. The finished photograph is the unmanipulated film image. Regularly exhibits work throughout the US and abroad. Reviewers and jurors have noted the work as suggestive of Hiroshi Sugimoto and color field painting.
• Awards
  The 12th Pollux Awards, international juried group exhibition, juried by Philip Brookman, Consulting Curator of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Series winner of the Landscape and Seascape category: Agriculture Series - Agricultural Fields. 2018. International Color Awards, 11th Annual International competition, international juried group exhibition, various jurors, Nominee. 2018. Gallery 110, mixed media juried group exhibition, juried by Melissa Feldman, independent curator and faculty at Seattle’s Cornish College of the Arts, the California College of Art, the San Francisco Art Institute and Goldsmith’s College in London, Seattle, WA. Juror award: Field #12. 2016.