Main entry:

Brown, Laurie, 1937-

Title & Author:

Recent terrains : terraforming the American West / photographs by Laurie Brown ; poetry by Martha Ronk ; concluding essay by Charles E. Little.

Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2000.

Description:

xii, 95 pages : illustrations ; 19 x 31 cm.

Series:

Creating the North American landscape

Notes:
I. Foreground / On the Edge of a New Frontier -- Poem -- Arroyo Seco -- II. Middleground / Expanding Latitudes of Development -- Poem -- Peripheral Views -- III. Background / Roads to an Uncertain Future -- Poem -- The Site of Staring -- Conclusion / Charles E. Little.

Summary:

"In this book of sixty black-and-white panoramas, photographer Laurie Brown documents the changing landscape along the western edge of Southern California. These images reveal a world scraped and reshaped by construction equipment - boulders pushed aside, stretches of earth flattened and then measured with surveyor sticks. High-tech housing developments rise in these places, lines of identical homes that simultaneously offer a pleasing vision of order and a numbing prospect of sterile conformity. Recent Terrains: Terraforming the American West is a sequence of photographs that consider how the planet's surface has been transformed to meet the needs of our consumer society." "Taken during the last decade of the twentieth century, these photographs serve as an archive of change at a specific place on the coastal edge of California at the turn of the millennium. But these images have larger relevance for all of us, exploring our ideas about what constitutes a home and what defines our sense of community."--BOOK JACKET.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Contributor biographical information
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0801863996 (acid-free paper)
9780801863998 (acid-free paper)
0801864003 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
9780801864001 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

Landscapes West (U.S.) Pictorial works.
Suburban life West (U.S.) Pictorial works.
Environmental engineering West (U.S.) Pictorial works.
Ecology.
Environmental engineering.
Landscapes.
Suburban life.
West (U.S.) Pictorial works.
West (U.S.) Environmental conditions Pictorial works.
West United States.

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works.
Pictorial works.
Panoramic photographs California Orange County 20th century Reproductions.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Ronk, Martha Clare.
Little, Charles E.
Creating the North American landscape.

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 237437
Call No.: BIB 167252
Status: Available