Through the lens of his camera, Scott McFarland evocatively addresses the relationship between nature, civilization and representation. Drawing upon the histories of landscape painting and photography, he situates his work firmly in the 21st century, creating images by stitching multiple exposures into seamless pictures of astonishing detail and tonal range. McFarland's work emphasizes the way human perception of the natural world is intertwined with traditions of representation, and how photography's link to reality is simultaneously real and fabricated.

Scott McFarland will feature forty photographs produced over the past six years. Internationally recognized, McFarland has exhibited in prominent museums and galleries in North America and Europe, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

This book was published in partnership with the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Grant Arnold is Audain Curator of British Columbia Art at the Vancouver Art Gallery, where over the past 20 years he has organized more than 35 exhibitions of historical, modern and contemporary art. He has also contributed essays and articles to exhibition catalogues, books and journals, recent examples being Ken Lum, Mark Lewis: Cold Morning, and Roy Arden: Against the Day. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Martin Barnes is senior curator of photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

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Vincent Honore is curator and head of the collection of the David Roberts Art Foundation.

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Eva Respini is assistant curator, Department of Photography, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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Shep Steiner, an art historian and critic, teaches at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver. His writing has appeared in C-Magazine, Parachute, Journal of Visual Culture, and other publications.

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