Wilderness to wasteland
By: David T. Hanson ; foreword by Joyce Carol Oates ; afterword by Miles Orvell
Contributors: Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- writer of foreword; Orvell, Miles, writer of afterword
Publisher: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780692493724
Subjects: Hazardous waste sites; Pictorial works; Waste lands
Description: "For thirty years, David T. Hanson has made photographs that are widely celebrated for their powerful depictions of the American landscape and how it has been transformed and despoiled by our industrial and military culture ... Wilderness to Wasteland presents four series of previously unpublished and unexhibited photographs from Hanson's early work"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Joyce Carol Oates; title: Melancholy pleasures: late twentieth-century landscapes / David T. Hanson; title: Atomic City 1986; title: The richest hill on Earth 1985-87; title: Wilderness to wasteland 1985-86; title: Twilight in the wilderness 1982-83; title: Afterword: David T. Hanson: the moral aesthetic of landscape photography / Miles Orvell.