Dornith Doherty: Archiving Eden
2019

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From February 15 through July 15, 2019, Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences presented the exhibition Dornith Doherty: Archiving Eden. Since 2008, artist Dornith Doherty has traveled across five continents to document and poetically reflect on seed banking. This ongoing series blends traditional photography with X-ray images of seeds, created in collaboration with seed-bank scientists. Through these varied works, Doherty invites us to contemplate the beauty, dynamism, and fragility of plant life while highlighting crucial efforts to safeguard biodiversity—especially our essential food sources—against threats like blight, climate change, habitat loss, and unforeseen challenges. This exhibition catalog features essays by John Rohrbach, Senior Curator of Photographs, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, and Katherine Ware, Curator of Photography, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe.

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18 pages · 8.5 x 11 ·
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-99302-4

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National Academy of Sciences. 2019. Dornith Doherty: Archiving Eden. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

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