American photographer
Lucas Foglia (born 1983) is an American photographer, living in San Francisco.
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[2] "His work is concerned mainly with documenting people and their relationship to nature", for which he has travelled extensively making landscape photography and portraiture.
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Foglia's Human Nature has been shown in solo exhibitions at the
Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) in Chicago
[4] and at
Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam .
[5] His work is held in the collections of
Denver Art Museum ,
[6] MoCP,
[7]
Philadelphia Museum of Art
[8] and
Portland Art Museum .
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Early life and education
Foglia was born on Long Island, New York.
[1] His parents were part of the
back-to-the-land movement and he grew up on their farm, 30 miles from Manhattan.
[10] He received his BA from
Brown University in 2005
[11] and received his MFA from
Yale School of Art , at Yale University, Connecticut in 2010.
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Work
Foglia's first two books A Natural Order (2012) and Frontcountry (2014) merge landscape photography and portraiture.
[12] According to
Sean O'Hagan in The Guardian , the portraits in those books and in Human Nature (2017), "occupy that tricky, slightly heightened hinterland between documentary and staging."
[13]
A Natural Order "looked at people who lived off the grid in the American backwoods – drifters, Christian communities, back-to-the-land hippies, survivalists".
[12] It was made over five years and several long trips south in a camper van.
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Frontcountry is a book of two halves, depicting the contrast between the contradictory lifestyles of ranching and mining in the contemporary
American West . It was made between 2006 and 2013 in Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and Wyoming.
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Human Nature is "a series of vignettes about the relationship science, government, and individuals have with wilderness and nature."
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Summer After (2021) contains black and white portraits of people that Foglia met on the street in New York City in 2002 in the wake of the
September 11 attacks , after he moved to Manhattan.
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Publications
Books by Foglia
Books with contributions by Foglia
Solo exhibitions
2012. David Winton Bell Gallery of
Brown University , Providence, Rhode Island. “A Natural Order”
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2012. Les
Rencontres d’Arles , Arles, France. “A Natural Order”
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2012. Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, United Kingdom. “A Natural Order”
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2013.
Belfast Exposed , Belfast, Northern Ireland. “A Natural Order”
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2013.
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver , Denver, Colorado. “A Natural Order”
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2013.
Blue Sky Gallery , Portland, Oregon. “A Natural Order”
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2013. Quinzaine Photographique Nantaise, Nantes, France. “A Natural Order”
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2013. Athens Photo Festival, Athens, Greece. “A Natural Order”
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2014. Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, New York, New York. “Frontcountry”
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2014. Michael Hoppen Contemporary, London, United Kingdom. “Frontcountry”
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2014. Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado. “Frontcountry”
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2014. MiCamera, Milan, Italy. “Frontcountry”
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2016. Jeonju International Photography Festival, Jeonju, South Korea. “A Natural Order”
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2017. Michael Hoppen Contemporary, London, United Kingdom. “Human Nature”
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2017. Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, New York, New York. “Human Nature”
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2018.
Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam , Amsterdam, the Netherlands. “Human Nature”
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2018.
Headlands Center for the Arts , Sausalito, California. “Human Nature”
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2018.
Museum of Contemporary Photography , Chicago, Illinois. “Human Nature”
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2021. Public Installation, Milan, Italy. “Human Nature”
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2021. Photoclimat Biennale, Place du Palais Royal, Paris, France. “Human Nature”
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Awards
2006. Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Aaron Siskind Fellowship in Photography
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2007.
Light Work , Artist in Residence
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2008.
Center for Photography at Woodstock , Photography Now
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2008.
Magenta Foundation , Flash Forward
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2009.
Photo District News , PDN 30
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2012.
Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards , Shortlist
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2014. Foam Talent
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2014. Individual Photographer’s Fellowship, Aaron Siskind Foundation
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2017. Syngenta Photography Award, Shortlist
[49]
2018.
Headlands Center for the Arts , Artist in Residence
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2019. Prix Pictet, Shortlist
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Collections
Foglia's work is held in the following permanent collections:
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, Frankfurt, Germany: 12 Prints (as of December 14, 2021)
[52]
Cantor Arts Center at
Stanford University , Stanford, CA: 10 Prints (as of December 14, 2021)
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Cleveland Museum of Art , Cleveland, OH: 7 Prints (as of December 14, 2021)
[54]
David Winton Bell Gallery of
Brown University , Providence, RI: 88 Prints (as of December 14, 2021)
[55]
Denver Art Museum , Denver, CO: 13 Prints (as of December 14, 2021)
[56]
Harvard Art Museums , Cambridge, MA: 3 Prints (as of December 14, 2021)
[57]
International Center for Photography New York, NY: 42 Prints (as of December 14, 2021)
[58]
Light Work , Syracuse, NY: 7 Prints (as of December 14, 2021)
[59]
Los Angeles County Museum of Art , Los Angeles, CA: 14 Prints (as of December 14, 2021)
[60]
Milwaukee Art Museum , Milwaukee, WI: 10 Prints (as of December 14, 2021)
[61]
Museum of Contemporary Photography , Chicago, Illinois: 53 prints (as of December 14, 2021)
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Museum of Fine Arts Houston , Houston, TX: 7 Prints (as of December 14, 2021)
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Philadelphia Museum of Art , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 8 prints (as of December 14, 2021)
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Portland Art Museum , Portland, Oregon: 10 prints (as of December 14, 2021)
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Rhode Island School of Design Museum , Providence, RI: 45 Prints (as of December 14, 2021)
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , San Francisco, CA: 5 Prints (as of December 14, 2021)
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Sheldon Museum of Art , Lincoln, NE: 6 Prints (as of December 14, 2021)
[67]
Comer Collection of Photography at
University of Texas at Dallas , Dallas, TX: 6 Prints (as of December 14, 2021)
[68]
Victoria & Albert Museum , London, EN: 1 Print (as of December 14, 2021)
[69]
Center for Photography at Woodstock , Woodstock, NY: 1 Print (as of December 14, 2021)
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References
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"Americans spend 90 percent of their lives indoors. These photos will make you want to get outside" . Mother Jones . Retrieved September 10, 2021 .
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"Portraits of New Yorkers from the Summer After 9/11" . The New Yorker . September 11, 2021. Retrieved September 16, 2021 .
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"A Natural Order by Lucas Foglia" . Time . Retrieved September 10, 2021 .
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" 'Frontcountry': photographer Lucas Foglia captures the American heartlands" . Wallpaper . March 28, 2014. Retrieved September 10, 2021 .
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"Summer After captures the fragility of a post-9/11 New York" . Creative Review . September 2, 2021. Retrieved September 10, 2021 .
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"Flash Forward 2008" .
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"2012 PhotoBook Awards Shortlist Announced!" . September 28, 2012.
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"Foam Talent 2014" . east-wing.org . Retrieved June 10, 2023 .
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"Aaron Siskind Foundation Announces 2014 Grant Recipients" . August 20, 2014.
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