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

Drawing from the 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Phillips, Sandra S., 1945- (Author)
Katz, Sally Martin (Author)
Corporate Authors: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Issuing body, Host institution)
Radius Books (Publisher)
Distributed Art Publishers (Distributor)
Editoriale Bortolazzi-Stei (Printer)
Other Authors: Chickey, David (Book designer)
Currie, Montana (Book designer)
Weathers, Chelsea (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Santa Fe, NM : Radius Books, [2021]
Subjects:
Landscapes > United States > Pictorial works.
Landscape photography > United States.
Land use > United States.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art > Photograph collections.
Photograph collections > California > San Francisco.
Land use.
Landscape photography.
Landscapes.
United States.
Pictorial works.
Genre:
Pictorial works.
Physical Description:371 pages : chiefly color illustrations, folded-out plates ; 31 cm
Variant Title:
Photographs of land use from 1840 to the present
Format: Book
Contents:
  • What We Now See / Barry Lopez
  • Plates / Sandra S. Phillips & Sally Martin Katz
  • Texts. Photography of American land / Sandra S. Phillips ; Eastern prospects and compromised landscapes / Richard B. Woodward ; Art and disrupting the Confederate monumental landscape / Hilary N. Green ; Bloody Kansas: Forging knowledge and justice at the horizon's edge / Jenny Reardon ; I cannot stop / Layli Long Soldier ; State of Oregon / Beverly Dahlen ; Water in the West / Richard White
  • Checklist
  • Resources
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Credits.