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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.

Penelope Umbrico (Photographs)offers a radical reinterpretation of every-day consumer and vernacular images. As the artist describes, she works "within the virtual world of consumer marketing and social media, traveling through the relentless flow of seductive images, objects, and information that surrounds us, searching for decisive moments- but in these worlds, decisive moments are cultural absurdities." Umbrico finds these moments in the pr...