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Author Phillips, Sandra S., 1945- author.

Title American geography : photographs of land use from 1840 to the present / Sandra S. Phillips with Sally Martin Katz.

Publication Info. Santa Fe, NM : Radius Books, [2021]
©2021

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 Axe 2nd Floor Oversize Stacks  779.3673 P546a 2021    ---  Available
Description 371 pages : chiefly color illustrations, fold-out plates ; 30 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Note "This book was originally planned as an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. When Covid-19 closed the museum in the spring of 2020, the show was canceled" -- Sandra Phillips.
Summary Drawing from the vast photography collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 'American Geography' charts a visual history of land use in the United States. From the earliest photographic records of human habitation to the latest aerial and digital pictures, from almost uninhabited desert and isolated mountainous territories to suburban sprawl and densely populated cities, this compilation offers an increasingly nuanced perspective on the American landscape. Divided by region, these photographs address ways in which different histories and traditions of land use have given rise to different cultural transitions: from the Midwestern prairies and agricultural traditions of the South, to the riverine systems in the Northeast, and the environmental challenges and riches of the far West. American Geography also looks at the evidence of older habitation from the adobe dwellings and ancient cultures of the Southwest to the Midwestern mounds, many of them prehistoric. SFMOMA's last photography exhibition to consider land use, Crossing the Frontier (1996), examined only the American West. At the time, this focus offered a different way to think about landscape, and a useful way to reconsider pictures of the region. American Geography expands upon the groundwork laid by Crossing the Frontier, providing a complex, thought-provoking survey. Exhibition: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA (Summer 2020).
Contents What We Now See / Barry Lopez -- Plates / Sandra S. Phillips & Sally Martin Katz -- Texts -- Checklist -- Resources -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Credits.
Subject Landscapes -- United States -- Pictorial works.
Landscape photography -- United States.
Land use -- United States.
Land use. (OCoLC)fst00991472
Landscape photography. (OCoLC)fst00992030
Landscapes. (OCoLC)fst01735625
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Pictorial works. (OCoLC)fst01423874
Added Author Katz, Sally Martin, author.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, issuing body, host institution.
Added Title Photographs of land use from 1840 to the present
ISBN 9781942185796 hardcover
1942185790 hardcover

 
    
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