Bloomington, IN (4)
Maker
Miller, Tyagan
American, b.1952
Date2003
MediumInkjet print
Dimensionsimage: 12 1/8 in x 12 in; paper: 19 in x 13 in
Credit LineGift of the artist and Lee Marks Fine Art
Object number2004:126
About the ArtistAs part of a career documenting social issues, Tyagan Miller began working on his ongoing landscape series Eminent Domains in the fall of 2003. These pictures of pruned trees growing around telephone and power lines, or utility structures in fields and yards, point up issues of human intervention in the landscape and the intersections of privately-owned and publicly-held land. Miller stresses that these photographs are not meant “to draw us nearer their subject to elicit sympathy or action,” but rather to “point quietly toward a particular sorrow.” Though the sites and situations he photographs occur across the country, the pictures in the series were all shot in the Midwest, for the most part close to the artist’s southern Indiana home. Tyagan Miller was born in 1952. He received a BA in philosophy and English and American literature from University of Southern Indiana (1986) and an MA in English and American literature from Indiana University (1988). His work has been exhibited at Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary; City Gallery of Prague, Czech Republic; Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery, Columbus; Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis; Erie Art Museum, Pennsylvania; Indianapolis Museum of Art; Indiana University, Bloomington; and The Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis. His work is also in the collections of Indianapolis Museum of Art, Mathers Museum of World Cultures, and University of Nebraska. He began Tyagan Miller Photography, Inc. in 1993 and served as lecturer at Indiana University’s School of Journalism beginning in 1996. 
