Binh Danh

Lot #19
Joshua Tree National Park (#9), 2014
Daguerreotype
10.75 x 12.5 x 1 inches 
Courtesy of Haines Gallery, San Francisco

About the Artwork

Growing up, Binh Danh was fascinated by Ansel Adams's seminal black-and-white photographs of Yosemite National Park. Danh, who immigrated to the US from war-torn Vietnam in 1979, visited many of Adams’s sites to photograph the same terrain; instead of film, Danh used light-sensitive silver plates to make daguerreotypes. The mirror-like surface of Joshua Tree National Park (#9) invites viewers to see ourselves reflected in this national park, newly illuminating the connection between this nation of immigrants and our adopted homeland. Danh is the recipient of a Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation and a 2019 Creative Work Fund grant. His work has been collected by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; San Jose Museum of Art; and SFMOMA.

Retail Value: $7,500