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The exhibition explores heat not simply as temperature, but as sensation, atmosphere, and memory. In several works, its physical effects are rendered with immediacy and sensual intensity. Lillian Bassman’s Touch of Dew (1961), Herb Ritts’ Jump, Paradise Cove (1987), and Sally Mann’s Luncheon in the Grasses (1991) each offer distinct visions of summer’s elemental charge—sunlight on skin, wind in hair, the charged stillness of long afternoons. Mann has described the context of her Immediate Family series as inseparable from the Southern summer, writing: “The time is summer. It’s any summer, but …