Opening Reception Shiprock and Mont St. Michel: Photographs by William Clift

Over the course of almost four decades Santa Fe photographer William Clift has photographed two distinctive monoliths that dominate their landscapes: Shiprock in the northwestern corner of New Mexico and Mont St. Michel off the north coast of France.  In this selection of more than seventy beautiful photographs, Clift shares his ongoing, nuanced exploration of the two places.  The exhibition is accompanied by a book with more than 130 reproductions of the artist’s pictures of Mont St. Michel and Shiprock.

This traveling exhibition is organized by the Phoenix Art Museum, where it premiered on January 9, 2013. Shiprock and Mont St. Michel: Photographs by William Clift is presented through the generosity of donors to the New Mexico Museum of Art’s Director’s Leadership Fund and Exhibitions Development Fund.