Landscape Sublime by Anastasia Samoylova

When was the last time you did a Google image search for “landscape”? The results will be glorifying images begging to be paired with inspirational quotes. Holiday brochure exaggerations in saturated colors and just-too-perfect light. Conformist and conventional, such depictions are less about real landscapes than the feelings they are meant to evoke. The algorithms of popular taste and fantasy have taken to an extreme those notions of the sublime landscape that took hold in western art in the 18th century. I search online copyright-free image libraries for various kinds of landscape pictures. Deserts. Glaciers. Tropics. Storms. Forests. Waterfalls. Mountains. These are collated, printed o...View all