Main entry:

Hanson, David T., photographer, author.

Title & Author:

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.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York : Aperture, [1997]
©1997

Description:

160 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
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.

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.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0893817260
9780893817268

Subject:

Hanson, David T. 1948-
Hanson, David T.
Hazardous waste sites United States Pictorial works.
Ballistic missile defenses United States Pictorial works.
Waste lands United States Pictorial works.
Strip mining Environmental aspects Montana Colstrip Pictorial works.
Documentary photography Montana.
Environmental degradation Pictorial works.
Landscape photography.
Dépôts de déchets dangereux États-Unis Ouvrages illustrés.
Défense antimissile États-Unis Ouvrages illustrés.
Friches États-Unis Ouvrages illustrés.
Photographie documentaire Montana.
Environnement Dégradation Ouvrages illustrés.
Photographie de paysages.
Ballistic missile defenses
Documentary photography
Environmental degradation
Hazardous waste sites
Strip mining Environmental aspects
Waste lands
Bildband
Landschaftsfotografie
Landschaftsschaden
Colstrip (Mont.) Pictorial works.
Montana
Montana Colstrip
United States

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Berry, Wendell, 1934- author of preface.
Dowie, Mark, author of afterword.
Kittredge, William, writer of supplementary textual content.
Griffin, Susan, writer of supplementary textual content.
Montague, Peter, writer of supplementary textual content.
Pellerano, Maria B., writer of supplementary textual content.
Williams, Terry Tempest, writer of supplementary textual content.

Wasteland
Meditations on a ravaged landscape

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 176272
Call No.: IDM TD1040.H28; ID:98-B2495
Status: Available