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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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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Use in library | TR660.5 .H367 1997q Oversize | Off-site | |
| Book/Text | Use in library | TR660.5 .H367 1997q Oversize | Off-site |
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- 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
- Landscape photography
- Endangered species > Habitat > United States > Pictorial works
- Hazardous waste sites > United States > Pictorial works
- Guided missile silos > United States > Pictorial works
- Colstrip (Mont.) > Pictorial works
- Strip mining > Environmental aspects > Montana > Colstrip > Pictorial works
- Strip mining > Environmental aspects > United States > Pictorial works
- Waste lands > United States > Pictorial works
- 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