Title & Author:

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, Mass. : Harvard Art Museums, [2021]
New Haven, CT ; London : Yale University Press.
©2021

Description:

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

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"--Page [182].
As issued with wire spiral binding.
"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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-178).
" ..." / 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.

Summary:

"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 Web site.
'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.

ISBN:

9780300260083 (paperback)
0300260083 (paperback)

Subject:

Landscape photography United States History Exhibitions.
War Environmental aspects United States Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Military bases Environmental aspects United States Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Art and war Exhibitions.
Peace movements United States History Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Environmentalism United States History Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Photographers United States Interviews.
Artists United States Interviews.
Photographie de paysages États-Unis Histoire Expositions.
Guerre Aspect de l'environnement États-Unis Ouvrages illustrés Expositions.
Bases militaires Aspect de l'environnement États-Unis Ouvrages illustrés Expositions.
Art et guerre Expositions.
Photographes États-Unis Entretiens.
Artistes États-Unis Entretiens.
Mouvements pacifistes États-Unis Histoire Ouvrages illustrés Expositions.
PHOTOGRAPHY General.
Photographers
Peace movements
Artists
War Environmental aspects
Art and war
Environmentalism
Landscape photography
Military bases Environmental aspects
United States

Form/genre:

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

Added entries:

Best, Makeda, 1975- editor, contributer.
Bright, Sheila Pree, interviewee.
Evans, Terry, 1944- interviewee.
Gilbertson, Ashley, interviewee.
Hanson, David T., interviewee.
Kranitz, Stacy, 1976- interviewee.
Lee, Jin, interviewee.
Misrach, Richard, 1949- interviewee.
Norfleet, Barbara P., interviewee.
Palacio, Oscar, interviewee.
Harvard Art Museums, host institution.

War and American landscape photography since 1970

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315473
Call No.: 315473
Copy: 1
Status: Available