DEEP SPRINGS

Contiss photographs capture the strange beauty of macro and microcosmic views in the high desert. The indistinguishableness of eart h and body and the sensual echoes of human and animal give her works an Ovidian sense of imminent metamorphoses. Lawrence Rinder T he images in Sam Contis's Deep Springs were made in a remote desert valley east of the Sierra Nevada. The work centres on a small, a ll-male liberal arts college, founded in 1917 by the educational pioneer L. L. Nunn. The college and its surroundings provide a stag e on which...[Llegir més]