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Waste land : meditations on a ravaged landscape

Title
Waste land : meditations on a ravaged landscape / photographs and essays by David T. Hanson ; preface by Wendell Berry ; afterword by Mark Dowie ; additional texts by William Kittredge, Susan Griffin, Peter Montague and Maria B. Pellerano, Terry Tempest Williams.
Author
Hanson, David T.
Publication
  • New York : Aperture, [1997]
  • ©1997

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Additional Authors
  • Berry, Wendell, 1934-
  • Dowie, Mark
  • Kittredge, William
  • Griffin, Susan
  • Montague, Peter
  • Pellerano, Maria B.
  • Williams, Terry Tempest
Description
160 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color maps; 24 x 30 cm
Summary
Hanson has documented, often in aerial photographs, four photographic series which show some of the devastations that humans have inflicted upon the environment. The book opens with photographs of Colstrip, Montana and its strip mines, trailer parks, company houses, mine, power plant, and industrial site. The next series is the Minuteman Missile Sites which focuses on one aspect of the American industrial and military landscape: bleak aerial views of silos. The centerpiece of this book is Waste Land, a study of sixty-seven of the most dangerously polluted waste sites in the United States. In this series of triptychs, Hanson juxtaposes an aerial photograph, a modified topographic map, and an EPA site description exposing some of the strategies that corporations and individuals have used to avoid taking responsibility for the contamination. The final sequence is "The Treasure State": Montana 1889-1989. Here, the photographer begins with an aerial view of a site that affects one of Montana's imperiled species, and overlays each image with a sheet of glass, discreetly etched with the name of the impacted animal.
Alternative Title
Meditations on a ravaged landscape
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • illustrated books.
  • Illustrated works.
  • Pictorial works.
  • Ouvrages illustrés.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Preface / Wendell Berry -- Introduction / David T. Hanson -- Eating ourselves alive / William Kittredge -- Colstrip, Montana -- Looking at this landscape, she tries to reason it out / Susan Griffin -- Minuteman Missile Sites -- Moving into hubris / Peter Montague and Maria B. Pellarano -- Waste Land -- Cutthroat / Terry Tempest Williams -- "The Treasure State": Montana 1889-1989 -- Notes on Waste Land / David T. Hanson -- Afterword: Our land, our wisdom / Mark Dowie.
ISBN
  • 0893817260
  • 9780893817268
LCCN
97070513
OCLC
  • ocm37934405
  • 37934405
  • SCSB-349183
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library