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Devour the land : war and American landscape photography since 1970

Title

Devour the land : war and American landscape photography since 1970 / edited by Makeda Best ; with contributions by Makeda Best, Steven Hoelscher, Abrahm Lustgarten, Courtney J. Martin, Katherine Mintie, Ed Roberson, and Will Wilson ; interviews with Sheila Pree Bright, Terry Evans, Ashley Gilbertson, David T. Hanson, Stacy Kranitz, Jin Lee, Richard Misrach, Barbara Norfleet, and Oscar Palacio.

Publication

Cambridge, MA : Harvard Art Museums, [2021]
New Haven, CT ; London : Distributed by Yale University Press.
©2021

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x, 180, 46, 21 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits; 26 cm

Summary

'Devour the Land' considers how contemporary photographers have responded to the US military's impact on the domestic environment since the 1970s. This catalog presents voices at the intersection of art, environmentalism, militarism, photography, and politics. Alongside interviews with contemporary artists working in the landscape photography tradition, the images speak to photographers' varied motivations, personal experiences, and artistic approaches. The result is a picture of the ways violence and warfare surround us. Although most modern combat has taken place abroad, the US domestic landscape bears the footprint of armed conflict--much of the environmental damage we live with today was caused by our own military and the expansive network of industries supporting its work. Designed to evoke a field book and to nod toward ephemera produced by earlier artists and activists, the catalog features works by dozens of photographers, including Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, Dorothy Marder, Alex Webb, Terry Evans, and many more.

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Genre/Form

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition, pictorial works.
Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Note

"This catalog accompanies the exhibition 'Devour the land: war and American landscape photography since 1970' on view at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, from September 17, 2021 through January 16, 2022."--Page 182.
As issued with wire spiral binding.
"Devour the Land considers how contemporary photographers have responded to the U.S. military's impact on the domestic environment since the 1970s, a dynamic period for environmental activism as well as for photography. This catalog presents a lively range of voices at the intersection of art, environmentalism, militarism, photography, and politics"--Publisher's website.
"Contexts" consists of 11 leaves printed on green paper and distributed in seven locations throughout the book.
"Interviews" consists of 23 leaves printed on blue paper (26 x 14 cm.) and distributed in nine locations throughout the book.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-178).

Contents

(from table of contents) "..." / Ed Roberson -- Foreword -- Introduction / Makeda Best -- America's legacy of military pollution / Abrahm Lustgarten -- Picturing to protect : photography and environmental law in the United States, 1960-present / Katherine Mintie -- Wounded landscapes : the aesthetics of a damaged Earth / Steven Hoelscher -- Bringing it home : photography and the imprint of violence on the American landscape / Makeda Best -- (Plates). Silent spring. Arming America. Slow violence. Regeneration. Other battlefields. Resistance -- Connecting the dots / Will Wilson -- The book works of Sharon Gilbert / Courtney J. Martin -- Interviews -- Contexts -- We look at the world to see the Earth / Ed Roberson.

ISBN

9780300260083
0300260083

LCCN

99990317331

OCLC

on1245472002
1245472002
SCSB-14253004

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries