But, of course, good fine art photography is its own reward, whatever or wherever the subject matter. In the most memorable images of the show, an intuitive process of depicting a scene and a culture and the unaccountable atmosphere of art come together in an unexpected, symbiotic accord.
Lawrence Wallin's images from Venice and Budapest, for instance, are fine and exotic, but he reaches the high point with "Machu Picchu Afternoon," in which the ancient site is caught in an eerie, present-tense clarity of sunlight. The audience is aware if antiquity and the heat of the present moment.