There are few people in these pictures, and most of them are, oddly, standing quietly in shallow water, cooling off in shimmering heat.
Spencer began driving across the United States with his camera after 9/11; over 13 years he logged 80,000 miles. His motivation: to grow humble before the place that he might arrive in his place and … want to remain. Spencer’s work has a magisterial quality; some of it has the feel of photographic painting. Gaze in wonder at the striations of color in Death Valley, feel on your clothes the sopping California fog and on your face the weight of a cloud bank pressing against a lone tree on a South Dakota horizon. All pieces are for sale.
2007
Archival Pigment Print with Mixed Media Glaze
29 x 36 in
73.7 x 91.4 cm
(JSp.010)
from This Land Portfolio
Color Archival Inkjet Print
20 x 30 in
50.8 x 76.2 cm
Ed. 20, 2
(JSp.028)
2009
Toned Gelatin Silver Print
20 x 24 in
50.8 x 61 cm
Ed. 50, 23
(JSp.027)
2000
Toned Gelatin Silver Print
20 x 24 in
50.8 x 61 cm
Ed. 40, 7
(JSp.004)
2000
from This Land Portfolio
Toned Gelatin Silver Print
18 x 18 in
45.7 x 45.7 cm
Ed. 16, 40
(JSp.008)
2003
Archival Inkjet Print
19 x 23 in
48.3 x 58.4 cm
Ed. 15, 9
(JSp.017)
from Native Soil Portfolio
1998
Toned Gelatin Silver Print
20 x 24 in
50.8 x 61 cm
Ed. 50, 38
(JSp.023)
1997
from This Land Portfolio
Toned Gelatin Silver Print
20 x 24 in
50.8 x 61 cm
Ed. 20, 2
(JSp.013)
Archival Inkjet Print
20 x 26 in
50.8 x 66 cm
Ed. 20, 1
(JSp.001)
2007
Archival Inkjet Print
20 x 25 in
50.8 x 63.5 cm
Ed. 20, 3
(JSp.014)
2000
Toned Gelatin Silver Print
20 x 24 in
50.8 x 61 cm
Ed. 40, 6
(JSp.002)
1997
Toned Gelatin Silver Print
20 x 24 in
50.8 x 61 cm
Ed. 50, 37
(JSp.006)
2006
Archival Inkjet Print
24 x 24 in
61 x 61 cm
Ed. 20, 7
Signed and Editioned in Ink Recto and Verso
(JSp.015)
1997
Panola County, Mississippi
Toned Gelatin Silver Print
20 x 24 in
50.8 x 61 cm
Ed. 30, 28
Signed; on verso
(JSp.028)
from Apariciónes Portfolio
Toned Gelatin Silver Print
20 x 24 in
50.8 x 61 cm
Ed. 40, 7
(JSp.021)
1998
Bayou Goula, Louisiana
Archival Pigment Print
20 x 24 in
50.8 x 61 cm
Ed. 50, 43
(JSp.029)
2008
Archival Pigment Print with Mixed Media Glaze
30 x 40 in
76.2 x 101.6 cm
(JSp.011)
2000
Toned Gelatin Silver Print
20 x 26 in
50.8 x 66 cm
Ed. 12, 40
(JSp.007)
1998
Sheldon, South Carolina
Toned Gelatin Silver Print
20 x 24 in
50.8 x 61 cm
Ed. 50, 44
(JSp.025)
1996
Blackhawk, Mississippi
Toned Gelatin Silver Print
20 x 24 in
50.8 x 61 cm
Ed. 50, 46
(JSp.012)
