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Agra, 2008

Photograph
2008 (photographed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Sze Tsung Leong was born in Mexico City in 1970, spent his childhood between Mexico, Britain, and the United States, and currently lives and works in New York. His work has been exhibited internationally, and his work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the High Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the National Galleries of Scotland, among others. Horizons, his second book, was published by Hatje Cantz in 2014.

Horizons is a series of landscape photographs taken all over the world, in which the horizon is always at precisely the same place. The photographs – all meticulously framed, and some starkly minimalist – can be viewed together in various arrangements, to create the appearance of a continuous horizon running through them all. The series explores the relationship between geography and the built environment. Leong states: ‘Horizons is an ongoing series of photographs, begun in 2001, that depict expansive views of a broad spectrum of environments throughout the world. The locations of the images may be distant in geography and diverse in subject matter, yet the photographs are linked by a horizon which continues in the same position from image to image. When placed side by side, the images form an extended landscape composed of an accumulation of varied continents, cities, terrains, situations, textures, and colors.’ Leong shoots on film with medium and large format cameras, and makes analogue chromogenic prints.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • Agra, 2008 (assigned by artist)
  • Horizons (series title)
Materials and techniques
photography
Brief description
Photograph by Sze Tsung Leong, 'Agra, 2008', from the series 'Horizons', C-type print
Physical description
A colour photograph of Agra, India. To the left of the photograph in the background is a railway bridge with washing lines crossing the ground below. To the right of the photograph in the distance is a feint outline of the Taj Mahal.
Dimensions
  • Paper height: 35.56cm
  • Paper width: 60.96cm
  • Image height: 30.48cm
  • Image width: 55.88cm
Production typeLimited edition
Marks and inscriptions
Signed, dated, numbered and titled on verso
Gallery label
Sze Tsung Leong (born 1970) ‘Canale della Giudecca I, Venezia’; ‘Victorville, California’; ‘Agra’; ‘Greenwich, London’; ‘Mexico DF I’ From the series ‘Horizons’ 2006–10 When these photographs are shown together, a continuous horizon links a diverse set of landscapes from all over the world. The series explores the relationship between geography and the built environment, alternately showing how nature can restrict or yield to human endeavours. C-type prints (printed 2014) Purchased with the Al-Thani Fund Museum nos. E.799 to 803-2014(2015)
Credit line
Purchased with funds from the Al-Thani Fund
Production
From and edition of 10 + 2 Artist's prints
Place depicted
Summary
Sze Tsung Leong was born in Mexico City in 1970, spent his childhood between Mexico, Britain, and the United States, and currently lives and works in New York. His work has been exhibited internationally, and his work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the High Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the National Galleries of Scotland, among others. Horizons, his second book, was published by Hatje Cantz in 2014.

Horizons is a series of landscape photographs taken all over the world, in which the horizon is always at precisely the same place. The photographs – all meticulously framed, and some starkly minimalist – can be viewed together in various arrangements, to create the appearance of a continuous horizon running through them all. The series explores the relationship between geography and the built environment. Leong states: ‘Horizons is an ongoing series of photographs, begun in 2001, that depict expansive views of a broad spectrum of environments throughout the world. The locations of the images may be distant in geography and diverse in subject matter, yet the photographs are linked by a horizon which continues in the same position from image to image. When placed side by side, the images form an extended landscape composed of an accumulation of varied continents, cities, terrains, situations, textures, and colors.’ Leong shoots on film with medium and large format cameras, and makes analogue chromogenic prints.
Associated objects
Collection
Accession number
E.801-2014

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Record createdOctober 16, 2014
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