Wondrous Cold

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WONDROUS COLD: AN ANTARCTIC JOURNEY

Smith­son­ian Insti­tu­tion Trav­el­ing Exhi­bi­tion Ser­vice in asso­ci­a­tion with Smith­son­ian Books.

ISBN:10:1–58834-238–7

Won­drous Cold: An Antarc­tic Jour­ney received an Hon­or­able Men­tion from the Amer­i­can Asso­ci­a­tion of Muse­ums’ 2006 Pub­li­ca­tions Com­pe­ti­tion.

“There is music in her best prints, sub­tle, love­ly, and nuanced.”​ — Michael More, Cam­era Arts

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Antarctic Journal

 

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“Won­drous Cold’: Burke exhib­it shows there’s much more to Antarc­ti­ca than pen­guins. “The Myers col­lec­tion, 50 pho­tographs orga­nized by the Smith­son­ian Insti­tu­tion, pro­vides sev­er­al lev­els of con­text for our pres­ence in Antarc­ti­ca.”– Seat­tle Times

“Find icy beau­ty” at Muse­um of the Gulf Coast by Cheryle Win­kle­man, The Enter­prise 01/20/2008 “It’s not easy tak­ing pic­tures when you’re at the South Pole.”

LensWork Extend­ed #71 has cre­at­ed a 62 page pdf port­fo­lio of “Won­drous Cold” images with an audio inter­view which is avail­able by going to the LensWork web­site and order­ing a copy. The work also appears in their print ver­sion, LensWork 71, Jul-Aug 2007.

Pow­er­ful Encoun­ters, Thurs­day, Novem­ber 23, 2006 (NYC) Radio Inter­view with Leonard Lopate “… a pho­tog­ra­ph­er tells us about her trip to one of the most hos­tile cli­mates on Earth: Antarc­ti­ca.”

The Geo­graph­i­cal Soci­ety of Philadel­phia hosts Ms. Myers as she gives a mul­ti­me­dia pre­sen­ta­tion Octo­ber 19, 2006 (pdf press release)

Alas­ka Air­line, May 2006, arti­cle fea­tur­ing “Won­drous Cold Exhi­bi­tion.”

 

 

 

Won­drous Cold, the com­pan­ion book to the SITES exhi­bi­tion, May-Sep­tem­ber 2006, at the Smith­so­ni­an’s Nation­al Muse­um of Nat­ur­al His­to­ry, fea­tures more than 180 of Myers’ cap­ti­vat­ing col­or and black-and-white pho­tographs. Won­drous Cold: An Antarc­tic Jour­ney received an Hon­or­able Men­tion from the Amer­i­can Asso­ci­a­tion of Muse­ums’ 2006 Pub­li­ca­tions Com­pe­ti­tion.

“Into the very soul of cold”, a review of “Antarc­ti­ca, A Group Exhi­bi­tion” at the Bul­ger Gallery

“A World Apart”, Mike Craw­ford talks to Joan Myers about pho­tograph­ing the extra­or­di­nary land­scape of the Antarc­tic, Black / White Pho­tog­ra­phy, March 2006, Issue 57.

2003 Eliot Porter Prize Award from the New Mex­i­co Coun­cil on Pho­tog­ra­phy

“Still Life”, Stan­ford Mag­a­zine, March/April 2005 arti­cle

Cam­era Arts arti­cle on Joan Myers