Glass Mountain — A Landscape Photobook by Michael Lundgren
Glass Mountain is a large-format photobook by Michael Lundgren, published by STANLEY/BARKER in June 2025. The work moves through wilderness sites across the Americas, treating the land not as scenery but as material evidence of geological change and accumulated time.
About the Work
The sequence in Glass Mountain resists a fixed reading of nature. Lundgren moves between wide distance and close surface — rock, deposit, erosion, light — building a rhythm that implies duration without stating it. The photographs do not explain; they observe. Time registers as scar and residue rather than spectacle.
The editing is controlled. Nothing is overworked. The atmosphere is calm, but not reassuring — a quality Lundgren sustains across the full 120-page sequence without resolving into comfort or conclusion. Landscape here is in a constant state of becoming, not a subject to be admired but a condition to be read.
Lundgren has spoken of his work as a contemplation of the shift away from an Earth-centered mythology — a position that informs the restraint of the photographs without reducing them to illustration.
Glass Mountain is part of the Photobooks catalogue at Lokator100.
About the Artist
Michael Lundgren is a photographic artist working with landscape, material presence, and the human relationship to the Earth. His projects combine documentary observation with a restrained surreal edge. Glass Mountain continues his sustained interest in land as a bearer of meaning.
Lundgren was named a Guggenheim Fellow in Photography in 2017. His work is held in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno. STANLEY/BARKER previously published his book Geomancy in 2019. Further titles by Michael Lundgren are available in the Lokator100 catalogue.
