Victoria Sambunaris: Transformation of a Landscape

Her second monograph with Radius, Victoria Sambunaris: Transformation of a Landscape shares the nuance and majesty of the artist’s practice in a large-scale book format. Based in New York, Victoria Sambunaris structures her life around a photographic journey traversing the American landscape for several months per year. Equipped with a 5×7-inch field camera, a video camera, and research material, she crosses the country alone tenting on top of her car. Her project-based photographs document the continuing transformation of the American landscape with specific attention given to expanding political, technological, and industrial interventions. Part of her ongoing, twenty-four-year series “Taxonomy of a Landscape,” this book encompasses the past decade of work, including collected ephemera that form the essential and incidental elements of her practice as a photographer and researcher. Also featured are archival documentation of experiences and observations on the road, such as snapshots, maps, road logs, journals, geology and history books, mineral specimens, and artifacts. The work of Victoria Sambunaris is held in numerous public collections across the United States, including the Denver Art Museum (CO), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA), Art Institute of Chicago (IL), International Center of Photography (NY), Center for Creative Photography (AZ), Buffalo AKG Museum (NY), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (CA), Museum of Modern Art (NY), National Museum of Women in the Arts (DC), Brigham Young University Museum of Art (UT), Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VA), Museum of Fine Arts Houston (TX), Nelson-Atkins Museum (MO), and National Gallery of Art (DC).