Book# 45353

Hanson, David T.

Waste land. Meditations on a ravaged landscape. Photographs by David T. Hanson. Preface bx Wendell Berry. [Afterword Mark Dowie].

Ort   New York, NY
Verlag   Aperture
Jahr   1997
Auflage   first edition
Einband   hb.
Medium   book
ISBN / ISSN   0-89381-726-0; 978-0893817268

 

Text engl. - „During the past fifteen years of his career as an artist/photographer, Hanson has documented-- often in aerial photographs that are deceptively, inexorably beautiful-- some of the devastations that humans have inflicted and continue to impose upon the environment. Each of the four photographic series in this book provides a different look at the consequences of our actions. - Waste Land opens with a series of photographs of strip mines in Colstrip, Montana that Hanson created in the early 1980s, a series he describes as "a chronicle of entropy, an elegy for a lost landscape." Beginning with photographs depicting trailer parks and company houses-- void of any human presence-- the vantage point moves upwards through images of the community's mine, power plant, and industrial site, to aerial shots that become increasingly abstract. Ultimately, the series reveals Colstrip as arena and metaphor for the use, misuse, and abuse of power. - Hanson's Minuteman Missile Sites series focuses on one aspect of the American industrial and military landscape: bleak aerial views of silos, each containing a missile with a destructive potential nearly a hundred times that of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. These images disclose some of America's secret landscapes; they mirror in both form and content the military's applications of photography for surveillance and targeting.“ (From publisher’s text; see also: www.amazon.com/Waste-Land-Meditations-Ravaged-Landscape/dp/0893817260; seen 02.2018).
Photographie Landschaftsphotographie USA Monographie 21. Jahrh. Ökologie 

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