Lourdes Grobet, a contemporary photographer born in Mexico City, sought to challenge the disciplinar

Lourdes Grobet, a contemporary photographer born in Mexico City, sought to challenge the disciplinary boundaries between painting and photography through her Painted Landscapes series. As an art student in England in 1977—at the height of the punk revolution—Grobet used her camera to document local landscapes that she had drastically altered with colorful house paint. Grobet’s professor failed her, and Derbyshire residents called the police. In 1982 and 1983, still inspired, Grobet returned to this concept, siting her experiments across her Mexican homelands in Morelos, Michoacán, and Oaxaca. Grobet’s images challenge the historical premise that photography is a space of uninvolved documentation. The environmental sculptures seen in her work can point to the artistic intervention of landscapes that ultimately become industrialized.Posted by Jenée-Daria Strand Lourdes Grobet (Mexican, born 1940). Untitled (Cactus Painted Blue), ca. 1986. Silver dye bleach photograph (Cibachrome). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Marcuse Pfeifer, 1990.119.11. © artist or artist’s estate  -- source link

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