Hanson, David T., artist, photographer, author.

Colstrip, Montana / David T. Hanson ; essay by Rick Bass.

Fairfield, Iowa : Taverner Press, [2010]
New York, New York : Distributed Art Publishers.
East Greenwich, Rhode Island : Meridian Printing.
©2010.

1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations, photographs ; 25 x 31 cm

David T. Hanson's photographs of the coal-mining town of Colstrip, Montana, and the ruined landscape around it were exhibited by John Szarkowski at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1986. The work signaled a shift in American landscape photography, away from the cool modernism of the New Topographics. One of Hanson's aerial views of a waste pond looked like "a second-generation Abstract Expressionist canvas painted in acid," wrote New York Times critic Vicki Goldberg. The interaction of humans and their technology with nature is a subject that has been of particular interest to American artists and is inseparable from our shared heritage in the taming of the wilderness. The historian Leo Marx referred to this theme as "the machine in the garden." In Colstrip, Montana, the process is seen at its endpoint. The machine has ravaged, even consumed, the garden. The photographs reveal an entire pattern of terrain transformed by men to serve their needs. Individual images from the Colstrip series have been widely exhibited and published, but the entire sequence of 66 photographs have only rarely been seen. For this publication, Hanson has added 21 images and re-sequenced the series. Although the photographs were made in the early 1980s, they are perhaps even more relevant today, given growing concerns about energy production, environmental degradation and climate change. The pictures remain tragic reflections of a despoiled environment.

9781935202202 (hbk.)
1935202200 (hbk.)

Strip mining Environmental aspects Montana 20th century Pictorial works.
Coal mines and mining Environmental aspects Montana 20th century Pictorial works.
Coal-fired power plants Montana 20th century Pictorial works.
Documentary photography Montana 20th century.
Aerial photography Montana 20th century.
Landscape photography Montana 20th century.
Photography, Artistic 20th century.
Mines Exploitation à ciel ouvert Aspect de l'environnement Montana 20e siècle Ouvrages illustrés.
Charbon Mines et extraction Aspect de l'environnement Montana 20e siècle Ouvrages illustrés.
Centrales au charbon Montana 20e siècle Ouvrages illustrés.
Photographie documentaire Montana 20e siècle.
Photographie aérienne Montana 20e siècle.
Photographie de paysages Montana 20e siècle.
Photographie artistique 20e siècle.
Photography.
Social conditions
Ecology
Aerial photography
Coal-fired power plants
Coal mines and mining Environmental aspects
Documentary photography
Landscape photography
Photography, Artistic
Strip mining Environmental aspects
Colstrip (Mont.) Social conditions 20th century Pictorial works.
Colstrip (Mont.) Environmental conditions 20th century Pictorial works.
Montana
Montana Colstrip

photobooks.
illustrated books.
Photobooks
Illustrated works
Livres de photographies.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Bass, Rick, 1958- writer of supplementary textual content.
Taverner Press, publisher.
Meridian Printing, printer.
Distributed Art Publishers, distributor.
United States Iowa Fairfield.
United States Rhode Island East Greenwich.

Location: Library main m 270139
Call No.: BIB 202816
Status: Available