UNTITLED by Susan Lipper

2013
From the series Domesticated Land
Full color digital aqueous printing on textile
40 × 50 in, edition of 5

Susan Lipper’s Domesticated Land begins with a beautiful and haunting quote from Annette Kolodny’s The Land Before Her and prompts our reading of Susan’s incredible book. It is a brilliant sequence of icily subtle black and white photographs of the American West that both triggers a photographic trajectory back to the 19th century, through Frederick Sommer, and ‘New Topographics,’ and makes its own departures. Susan, as always, calls forth the very idea of how we gender both subject and photographic vantage point, coupled here with a claiming of this fabled environmental frontier. Bravo dear Susan, Domesticated Land is a timely, problematizing and brilliant photographic story.

—Charlotte Cotton

Strata shares prints on Photo Tex, a printable textile. We chose this material to offer works by notable photographers at an affordable price. The images don’t need to be framed—you simply peel off the backing and place the print on your wall. Our intent is that more photographs can find their way to homes, offices, and libraries without disrupting the value of archival prints for the artists who make them.