The view of a mountain in Sichuan, China is breathtaking, though not for the usual reasons. Photographer Roy Money doesn’t train his camera on the usual kind of tourist pictures — the highest peak, the widest vista, the prettiest temple. Instead, he has an eye for the beauty in the details, the shape of the land, a mat of vegetation, curls of fog. Pictures of famous vistas might make us want to go there. Pictures like Money’s might give us more of a sense of what it’s like to already be there.
The image is one of many in“Mountains and Rivers” — running now with William Butcher’s“The Portal Series/Expanding Visions” at Kehler Liddell Gallery on Whalley Avenue in Westville through March 10 — that show Money’s eye for foreign landscapes, and the ways the dazzle of the new doesn’t make his inner compass go astray.
