Lucas Foglia (born 1983) is an American photographer, living in San Francisco.[1][2] "His work is concerned mainly with documenting people and their relationship to nature", for which he has travelled extensively making landscape photography and portraiture.[3]
Foglia's Human Nature has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) in Chicago[4] and at Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam.[5] His work is held in the collections of Denver Art Museum,[6] MoCP,[7] Philadelphia Museum of Art[8] and Portland Art Museum.[9]
Early life and education
editFoglia was born on Long Island, New York.[1] His parents were part of the back-to-the-land movement and he grew up on their farm, 30 miles from Manhattan.[10] He received his BA from Brown University in 2005 [11] and received his MFA from Yale School of Art, at Yale University, Connecticut in 2010.[1][2]
Work
editFoglia's first two books A Natural Order (2012) and Frontcountry (2014) merge landscape photography and portraiture.[12] According to Sean O'Hagan in The Guardian, the portraits in those books and in Human Nature (2017), "occupy that tricky, slightly heightened hinterland between documentary and staging."[13]
A Natural Order "looked at people who lived off the grid in the American backwoods – drifters, Christian communities, back-to-the-land hippies, survivalists".[12] It was made over five years and several long trips south in a camper van.[10]
Frontcountry is a book of two halves, depicting the contrast between the contradictory lifestyles of ranching and mining in the contemporary American West. It was made between 2006 and 2013 in Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and Wyoming.[12]
Human Nature is "a series of vignettes about the relationship science, government, and individuals have with wilderness and nature."[14]
Summer After (2021) contains black and white portraits of people that Foglia met on the street in New York City in 2002 in the wake of the September 11 attacks, after he moved to Manhattan.[3][15]
Publications
editBooks by Foglia
edit- A Natural Order. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2012. ISBN 978-1590053522.[16]
- Frontcountry. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2014. ISBN 978-1590054062.[12][17]
- Human Nature. Paso Robles, CA: Nazraeli, 2017. ISBN 978-1-59005-464-2.[18][19][20]
- Summer After. UK: Stanley/Barker, 2021. ISBN 978-1-913288-26-6.[21]
Books with contributions by Foglia
edit- Core Samples from the World. New York: New Directions, 2011. By Forrest Gander. ISBN 978-0811218870. Poetry and essays by Gander, photographs by Foglia, Raymond Meeks, Graciela Iturbide.
Solo exhibitions
edit- 2012. David Winton Bell Gallery of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. “A Natural Order” [22]
- 2012. Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France. “A Natural Order” [23]
- 2012. Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, United Kingdom. “A Natural Order” [24]
- 2013. Belfast Exposed, Belfast, Northern Ireland. “A Natural Order” [25]
- 2013. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, Colorado. “A Natural Order” [26]
- 2013. Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon. “A Natural Order” [27]
- 2013. Quinzaine Photographique Nantaise, Nantes, France. “A Natural Order” [28]
- 2013. Athens Photo Festival, Athens, Greece. “A Natural Order” [29]
- 2014. Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, New York, New York. “Frontcountry” [30]
- 2014. Michael Hoppen Contemporary, London, United Kingdom. “Frontcountry” [31]
- 2014. Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado. “Frontcountry” [32]
- 2014. MiCamera, Milan, Italy. “Frontcountry” [33]
- 2016. Jeonju International Photography Festival, Jeonju, South Korea. “A Natural Order” [34]
- 2017. Michael Hoppen Contemporary, London, United Kingdom. “Human Nature” [35]
- 2017. Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, New York, New York. “Human Nature” [36]
- 2018. Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. “Human Nature” [36]
- 2018. Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California. “Human Nature” [37]
- 2018. Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois. “Human Nature” [38]
- 2021. Public Installation, Milan, Italy. “Human Nature” [39]
- 2021. Photoclimat Biennale, Place du Palais Royal, Paris, France. “Human Nature” [40]
Awards
edit- 2006. Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Aaron Siskind Fellowship in Photography[41]
- 2007. Light Work, Artist in Residence [42]
- 2008. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Photography Now [43]
- 2008. Magenta Foundation, Flash Forward [44]
- 2009. Photo District News, PDN 30 [45]
- 2012. Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards, Shortlist [46]
- 2014. Foam Talent [47]
- 2014. Individual Photographer’s Fellowship, Aaron Siskind Foundation [48]
- 2017. Syngenta Photography Award, Shortlist [49]
- 2018. Headlands Center for the Arts, Artist in Residence [50]
- 2019. Prix Pictet, Shortlist [51]
Collections
editFoglia's work is held in the following permanent collections:
- Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, Frankfurt, Germany: 12 Prints (as of December 14, 2021) [52]
- Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA: 10 Prints (as of December 14, 2021) [53]
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH: 7 Prints (as of December 14, 2021) [54]
- David Winton Bell Gallery of Brown University, Providence, RI: 88 Prints (as of December 14, 2021) [55]
- Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO: 13 Prints (as of December 14, 2021) [56]
- Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA: 3 Prints (as of December 14, 2021) [57]
- International Center for Photography New York, NY: 42 Prints (as of December 14, 2021) [58]
- Light Work, Syracuse, NY: 7 Prints (as of December 14, 2021) [59]
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA: 14 Prints (as of December 14, 2021) [60]
- Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI: 10 Prints (as of December 14, 2021) [61]
- Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois: 53 prints (as of December 14, 2021) [61]
- Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX: 7 Prints (as of December 14, 2021) [62]
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 8 prints (as of December 14, 2021)[63]
- Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon: 10 prints (as of December 14, 2021)[64]
- Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI: 45 Prints (as of December 14, 2021) [65]
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA: 5 Prints (as of December 14, 2021) [66]
- Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE: 6 Prints (as of December 14, 2021) [67]
- Comer Collection of Photography at University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX: 6 Prints (as of December 14, 2021) [68]
- Victoria & Albert Museum, London, EN: 1 Print (as of December 14, 2021) [69]
- Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY: 1 Print (as of December 14, 2021) [70]
References
edit- ^ a b c Stevens, Jenny (September 17, 2015). "Lucas Foglia's best photograph: cowboys Casey and Rowdy in the Nevada desert". The Guardian. Retrieved September 10, 2021.
- ^ a b "Biography". lucasfoglia.com. Retrieved September 10, 2021.
- ^ a b "Photographing New York's first summer after 9/11". i-d.vice.com. Retrieved September 10, 2021.
- ^ "Lucas Foglia: Human Nature". www.mocp.org. Retrieved September 10, 2021.
- ^ "Lucas Foglia - Human Nature". Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam. Retrieved September 10, 2021.
- ^ "Search the Collections". www.denverartmuseum.org. Retrieved September 10, 2021.
- ^ "Museum of Contemporary Photography". www.mocp.org. Retrieved September 10, 2021.
- ^ "Philadelphia Museum of Art - Collections : Search Collections". philamuseum.org. Retrieved September 10, 2021.
- ^ "Lucas Foglia". www.portlandartmuseum.us. Retrieved September 10, 2021.
- ^ a b O'Hagan, Sean (July 13, 2012). "Lucas Foglia: the photographer in search of off-the-grid Americans". The Guardian. Retrieved September 10, 2021.
- ^ "Lucas Foglia | About".
- ^ a b c d O'Hagan, Sean (April 1, 2014). "Call of the wild: photographer Lucas Foglia beds down in the American west". The Guardian. Retrieved September 10, 2021.
- ^ O'Hagan, Sean (October 10, 2017). "Human Nature by Lucas Foglia review – into the wild". The Guardian. Retrieved September 10, 2021.
- ^ Murrmann, Mark. "Americans spend 90 percent of their lives indoors. These photos will make you want to get outside". Mother Jones. Retrieved September 10, 2021.
- ^ "Portraits of New Yorkers from the Summer After 9/11". The New Yorker. September 11, 2021. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
- ^ "A Natural Order by Lucas Foglia". Time. Retrieved September 10, 2021.
- ^ "'Frontcountry': photographer Lucas Foglia captures the American heartlands". Wallpaper. March 28, 2014. Retrieved September 10, 2021.
- ^ "A Photographer's Journey Through Our Ever-Weirder Relationship to Nature". The New Yorker. November 14, 2017. Retrieved September 10, 2021.
- ^ "Menselijke natuur". De Standaard. Retrieved September 10, 2021.
- ^ Coghlan, Andy. "Stunning shots capture how we interact with our natural world". New Scientist. Retrieved September 10, 2021.
- ^ "Summer After captures the fragility of a post-9/11 New York". Creative Review. September 2, 2021. Retrieved September 10, 2021.
- ^ "Lucas Foglia: A Natural Order". www.brown.edu. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
- ^ "Les Rencontres d'Arles 2012 – review". TheGuardian.com. July 7, 2012.
- ^ "Lucas Foglia: A Natural Order - Exhibition at Michael Hoppen Gallery in London".
- ^ "A Natural Order". February 8, 2013.
- ^ "Month of Photography".
- ^ "Lucas Foglia". Blue Sky, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts. May 2, 2013. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
- ^ "Quinzaine Photographique Nantaise: Lucas Foglia présente "A natural order" à Nantes dans le cadre de la 17 ème édition de la QPN Biotope à l'Atelier". October 10, 2013.
- ^ "Athens Photo Festival 2013".
- ^ "Lucas Foglia - Exhibitions - Fredericks & Freiser".
- ^ "Lucas Foglia: Frontcountry at Michael Hoppen Gallery". Galleriesnow.net.
- ^ "Lucas Foglia : Frontcountry | Robischon Gallery Web site". www.robischongallery.com. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
- ^ "Lucas Foglia". December 3, 2014.
- ^ "2016전주포토페스티벌". Exhibition introduction. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
- ^ "Human Nature by Lucas Foglia at Michael Hoppen Gallery - Artland". www.artland.com. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
- ^ a b "Lucas Foglia - Exhibitions - Fredericks & Freiser". www.fredericksfreisergallery.com. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
- ^ "Spring exhibitions and programs - e-flux Education". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
- ^ "Lucas Foglia: Human Nature | Museum of Contemporary Photography". Retrieved June 10, 2023.
- ^ "5 Exhibitions to see in July". July 22, 2021.
- ^ "LES EXPOSITIONS – Photoclimat".
- ^ "LUCAS FOGLIA / Aaron Siskind Foundation Recipient - | Robischon Gallery Web site".
- ^ "Lucas Foglia | Light Work". January 2007.
- ^ "You are being redirected..." www.cpw.org. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
- ^ "Flash Forward 2008".
- ^ "Emerging Young Photographers to Present Work and Offer Career Insight Oct. 1".
- ^ "2012 PhotoBook Awards Shortlist Announced!". September 28, 2012.
- ^ "Foam Talent 2014". east-wing.org. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
- ^ "Aaron Siskind Foundation Announces 2014 Grant Recipients". August 20, 2014.
- ^ "The Syngenta Photography Awards 2017".
- ^ "Lucas Foglia". February 24, 2018.
- ^ "Prix Pictet 2019 shortlist – photo essay". TheGuardian.com. July 5, 2019.
- ^ "Lucas Foglia". www.deutscheboersephotographyfoundation.org. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
- ^ "Cantor Arts Center - Lucas Foglia".
- ^ "Search the Collection".
- ^ "Search the Collection Photography | David Winton Bell Gallery".
- ^ "Search the Collections | Denver Art Museum".
- ^ "Harvard Art Museums".
- ^ "Lucas Foglia". April 20, 2020.
- ^ "Light Work Collection / Search / Lucas foglia".
- ^ "Lucas Foglia | LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
- ^ a b "Collection | Milwaukee Art Museum".
- ^ "Works | Lucas Foglia | People | the MFAH Collections".
- ^ "Philadelphia Museum of Art - Search".
- ^ "Lucas Foglia".
- ^ "Collection | RISD Museum". risdmuseum.org. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
- ^ "Foglia, Lucas".
- ^ "Stale Session". emp-web-95.zetcom.ch. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
- ^ "Comer Collection at UT Dallas". Jerry and Marilyn Comer Collection of Photography. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
- ^ Museum, Victoria and Albert. "Search Results | V&A Explore the Collections". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
- ^ "You are being redirected..." www.cpw.org. Retrieved June 10, 2023.