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Wilderness to wasteland / David T. Hanson ; foreword by Joyce Carol Oates ; afterword by Miles Orvell

Catalog Data

Photographer:
Hanson, David T.  Search this
Writer of foreword:
Oates, Joyce Carol 1938-  Search this
Writer of afterword:
Orvell, Miles  Search this
Physical description:
191 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 x 31 cm
Type:
Pictorial works
Place:
United States
Date:
2016
Contents:
Foreword / Joyce Carol Oates -- Melancholy pleasures: late twentieth-century landscapes / David T. Hanson -- Atomic City 1986 -- The richest hill on Earth 1985-87 -- Wilderness to wasteland 1985-86 -- Twilight in the wilderness 1982-83 -- Afterword: David T. Hanson: the moral aesthetic of landscape photography / Miles Orvell
Summary:
"For thirty years, David T. Hanson has made photographs that are widely celebrated for their powerful depictions of the American landscape and how it has been transformed and despoiled by our industrial and military culture.... Wilderness to Wasteland presents four series of previously unpublished and unexhibited photographs from Hanson's early work"--Book jacket.
Topic:
Hazardous waste sites  Search this
Waste lands  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1071319