“Hunts Mesa’s Majestic View”
by Priscilla Tacheney, Navajo
Alternate View
Priscilla Tacheney
Description: Black and white photograph, mounted between glass in worked metal frame
About this Award: Awarded to acknowledge excellence in technique in two-dimensional art.
Jurors’ Comments:
Pam Lujan-Hauer: It’s an intriguing, unusual view of Monument Valley, and it’s very well done. The focus is incredible.
Anthony Lovato: You have to climb pretty high to take this picture. I like the space around the photo; it gives a sense of space, of being there at the actual place where the picture was taken. I really don’t like the frame.
Bruce Bernstein: There’s always a debate whether photography is art or not. This photograph makes a firm case for photography as art, in terms of its clarity of vision. It is a moment caputred in time, and just the focus and the length of view. It couldn’t be but a brief moment when the sun’s at a certain spot in the sky and you look across the landscape there’s almost no shadow. There’s so much to it; it’s just unique. I think the frame is fantastic.