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Featuring more than 40 works, the show includes both color and black and white photos from the 19th Century until today.
The exhibit takes its title from a poem about the complex nature of the ocean by Adrienne Rich:
The sea is not a question of power
I have to learn alone to turn my body
without force
in the deep element.
There are shots from many of America's most famous beaches - Coney Island, Venice Beach, Key West, Palm Beach, Martha's Vineyard. Europe is represented with beach scenes from England, France, and Italy. Noted artists such as Andy Warhol and Gordon Parks have contributions.
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But the exhibit also featured several shots capturing the natural beauty and majesty of the ocean and its beaches even when humans aren't present. One such work was the mist shrouded crags of Torbjen Rodland in Norway. Another was a large work of 3 photos by Rentae Allen, who has been picturing the same single site of the coast of Long Island for years.
"The ocean is a point of reflection and meditation ... We, as spectators, on the scene are here, yet we are able to project ourselves somewhere else," Allen writes.
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