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Geoffrey James

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PhotographyConceptual ArtPhotography

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Geoffrey James is a Canadian photographer born in 1942 whose practice emerged from postwar conceptual inquiry into landscape and institutional space. Working primarily in large-format color and black-and-white photography, he documents industrial sites, modernist architecture, and the human traces within constructed environments. His work combines documentary precision with a formal awareness of composition and light that transforms everyday subjects into meditative studies of cultural infrastructure and memory.

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Cleveland Museum of Art Museum of Modern ArtNew York

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Artworks (28)

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Cuyahoga Valley National Park

2005 · gelatin silver print

Image: 19.9 x 48.3 cm (7 13/16 x 19 in.); Paper: 25.4 x 50.5 cm (10 x 19 7/8 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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Viaduct of the Ohio Turnpike

2005 · gelatin silver print

Image: 19.6 x 47.7 cm (7 11/16 x 18 3/4 in.); Paper: 30.2 x 50.5 cm (11 7/8 x 19 7/8 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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On the bank of the Cuyahoga River near Boston Store

2005 · gelatin silver print

Image: 19.8 x 48.3 cm (7 13/16 x 19 in.); Paper: 25.6 x 50.6 cm (10 1/16 x 19 15/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad along the Cuyahoga River

2005 · gelatin silver print

Image: 20 x 48.3 cm (7 7/8 x 19 in.); Paper: 25.5 x 50.5 cm (10 1/16 x 19 7/8 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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Beaver Marsh

2005 · gelatin silver print

Image: 19.8 x 48.2 cm (7 13/16 x 19 in.); Paper: 25.5 x 50.5 cm (10 1/16 x 19 7/8 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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Blue Hen Falls

2005 · gelatin silver print

Image: 20 x 48.2 cm (7 7/8 x 19 in.); Paper: 25.5 x 50.5 cm (10 1/16 x 19 7/8 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Untitled, Long Island

2005 · Gelatin silver print

9 7/16 × 22 11/16" (24 × 57.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled, Long Island

2005 · Gelatin silver print

22 5/8 × 9 7/16" (57.5 × 24 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Cleveland Museum of Art

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Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

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