American geography : photographs of land use from 1840 to the present / Sandra S. Phillips with Sally Martin Katz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, Sandra S., 1945- author.

Katz, Sally Martin, author.

Contributor:

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, issuing body, host institution.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscapes--United States--Pictorial works.

Landscapes.

Landscape photography--United States.

Landscape photography.

Land use--United States.

Land use.

United States.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Pictorial works.

Physical Description:

371 pages : chiefly color illustrations, fold-out plates ; 30 cm

Other Title:

Photographs of land use from 1840 to the present

Place of Publication:

Santa Fe, NM : Radius Books, [2021]

Summary:

Drawing from the vast photography collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 'American Geography' charts a visual history of land use in the United States. From the earliest photographic records of human habitation to the latest aerial and digital pictures, from almost uninhabited desert and isolated mountainous territories to suburban sprawl and densely populated cities, this compilation offers an increasingly nuanced perspective on the American landscape. Divided by region, these photographs address ways in which different histories and traditions of land use have given rise to different cultural transitions: from the Midwestern prairies and agricultural traditions of the South, to the riverine systems in the Northeast, and the environmental challenges and riches of the far West. American Geography also looks at the evidence of older habitation from the adobe dwellings and ancient cultures of the Southwest to the Midwestern mounds, many of them prehistoric. SFMOMA's last photography exhibition to consider land use, Crossing the Frontier (1996), examined only the American West. At the time, this focus offered a different way to think about landscape, and a useful way to reconsider pictures of the region. American Geography expands upon the groundwork laid by Crossing the Frontier, providing a complex, thought-provoking survey. Exhibition: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA (Summer 2020).

Contents:

What We Now See / Barry Lopez

Plates / Sandra S. Phillips & Sally Martin Katz

Texts. Photography of American land / Sandra S. Phillips ; Eastern prospects and compromised landscapes / Richard B. Woodward ; Art and disrupting the Confederate monumental landscape / Hilary N. Green ; Bloody Kansas: Forging knowledge and justice at the horizon's edge / Jenny Reardon ; I cannot stop / Layli Long Soldier ; State of Oregon / Beverly Dahlen ; Water in the West / Richard White

Checklist

Resources

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Credits.

Notes:

Photographers include: Ken Abbott ; Robert Adams ; Lewis Baltz ; George N. Barnard ; Perez M. Batchelder ; Bernd and Hilla Becher ; Richard Benson ; Dawoud Bey ; James Wallace Black ; Henry P. Bosse ; Barbara Bosworth ; Margaret Bourke-White ; Dannielle Bowman ; Esther Bubley ; David W. Butterfield ; Debbie Fleming Caffery ; Harry Callahan ; Jonathan Calm ; Evelyn Cameron ; Miguel Fernández de Castro ; William Christenberry ; Gregory Conniff ; Thomas Martin Easterly ; Jay Dearborn Edwards ; William Eggleston ; Mitch Epstein ; Augustus William Ericson ; Terry Evans ; Walker Evans ; Lucas Foglia ; Robert Frank ; LaToya Ruby Frazier ; Geoff Fricker ; Lee Friedlander ; Herve Friend ; Alexander Gardner ; Dave Gatley ; Frank Gohlke ; Emmet Gowin ; Stanley Greenberg ; Gregory Halpern ; Masumi Hayashi ; Frank Jay Haynes ; Mishka Henner ; Anthony Hernandez ; Humphrey Lloyd Hime ; John Horgan, Jr. ; Laton Alton Huffman ; Hutchins & Lanney ; William Henry Jackson ; Thomas H. Johnson ; Robert Kennett ; Justin Kimball ; Stuart Klipper ; Dorothea Lange ; Clarence John Laughlin ; An-My Lê ; Russell Lee ; Sze Tsung Nicolás Leong ; Michael Light ; Rhondal McKinney ; Laura McPhee ; Elsa Medina ; Joel Meyerowitz ; Roger Minick ; Richard Misrach ; A. W. Moller ; Wright Morris ; Karin Apollonia Müller ; Nicholas Nixon ; Timothy H. O'Sullivan ; Trevor Paglen ; Ed Panar ; Edward Ranney ; William Herman Rau ; Wendy Red Star ; Jeff Rich ; Arthur Rothstein ; Sheron Rupp ; Ed Ruscha ; Andrew Joseph Russell ; Mark Ruwedel ; James Fitzallen Ryder ; Victoria Sambunaris ; Bryan Schutmaat ; Matthew Shain ; Charles Sheeler ; Stephen Shore ; Art Sinsabaugh ; Frederick Sommer ; Alec Soth ; Edward Steichen ; Alfred Stieglitz ; Paul Strand ; Zoe Strauss ; John Szarkowski ; George A. Tice ; Stephen Tourlentes ; Paul Vanderbilt ; Corine Vermeulen ; Adam Clark Vroman ; S. B. Walker ; Carleton E. Watkins ; Wendel White ; Amani Willett ; William Williams ; Geoff Winningham ; Garry Winogrand ; Donov an Wylie.

Includes bibliographical references.

"This book was originally planned as an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. When Covid-19 closed the museum in the spring of 2020, the show was canceled" -- Sandra Phillips.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781942185796

1942185790

OCLC:

1164350932