Over the past fifty years, photographer Mimi Plumb has poignantly captured the evolution of the Western U.S. landscape and the lives of its inhabitants. Her first solo museum exhibition is currently presented at The High Museum in Atlanta, showcasing three major bodies of work that include more than one hundred photographs taken in and around San Francisco and across the American West. These works collectively explore how shifts in geopolitics, the economy, and the environment have influenced the anxieties of American life from the 1970s to the present.
Following its debut at The High, the exhibition will travel to three additional venues: the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago.
