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Pinnacle Iceberg, East Greenland 2006 © Camille Seaman

Over at the Seattle Times, Sheila Farr was knocked out by Camille Seaman's show, The Last Iceberg, at Photographic Center Northwest. You can preview some of her photos here. Like Edward Burtynsky's photographs of quarries and trash heaps, there's a troubling aesthetic at work. Reflected in the dissolving grandeur of Seaman's ice-scapes is global warming. Says Farr:

A member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, born in 1969, Seaman records images that suggest a twilight-of-the-gods scenario at the melting polar ice cap. She points it out in the title of her eerie 2006 "Valhalla." Craggy frozen figures seem to be left standing after a production that has played out and ended badly — reminiscent of an earlier age when mastodons were caught in a cryogenic wind, summer daisies between their teeth.

Seaman's photographs linger at the junction of black and white, and vivid color. Depending on the light, the spectrum can drain from the landscapes, leaving only slashes of brilliant aqua-blue locked in deep ice fissures. When the ice melts, color disappears as well.

12-9:30pm // Photographic Center Northwest, 900 12th Ave // Donations accepted