Range (of pages from the book Range), 2014

This work examines the analog history of photography within the digital torrent that is its current technological manifestation. It is the latest iteration of Umbrico’s larger project Moving Mountains, in which the artist rephotographs a selection of canonical masters’ photographs of mountains—the oldest and seemingly most stable of subjects—with a variety of the newest smartphone camera apps.

Digital C-Print with Enamel Paint
Edition of 20, each unique
Paper Size: 12 x 30 inches
Image Size: 12 x 30 inches
Signed and numbered by the artist

Penelope Umbrico (b. 1957, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto and received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York. She has participated extensively in solo and group exhibitions, including at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York. Umbrico is core faculty in the School of Visual Arts MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media Program. She lives in New York City.