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.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bright, Sheila Pree, interviewee.

Best, Makeda, 1975- editor, contributer.

Harvard Art Museums, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape photography--United States--History--Exhibitions.

Landscape photography.

War--Environmental aspects--United States--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.

War.

Military bases--Environmental aspects--United States--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.

Military bases.

Art and war--Exhibitions.

Art and war.

Environmentalism--United States--History--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.

Environmentalism.

Photographers--United States--Interviews.

Photographers.

Artists--United States--Interviews.

Artists.

History.

Military bases--Environmental aspects.

War--Environmental aspects.

United States.

Genre:

Interviews.

Exhibition, pictorial works.

Exhibition catalogs.

History.

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

x, 180 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard Art Museums, [2021]

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.

Contents:

America's legacy of military pollution - Picturing to protect : photography and environmental law in the United States, 1960-present

Wounded landscapes : the aesthetics of a damaged earth

Bringing it home : photography and the imprint of violence on the American landscape

Plates

Connecting the dots

The book work of Sharon Gilbert

Interviews.

Notes:

"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"--Colophon.

"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.

Spiral bound.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-178).

ISBN:

0300260083

9780300260083

OCLC:

1245472002