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OverviewIn 1980, more than 400,000 toxic waste sites existed across the United States. The Environmental Protection Agency declared 400 of these highly hazardous and in need of immediate attention. In just a few years, the number of these Superfund sites more than tripled. Though they constitute a shocking degradation of our landscape, Superfund sites are never seen by most Americans. In the course of one year (1985-86), David T. Hanson (born 1948) traveled to 45 states to make aerial photographs of 67 of them, documenting both US geography and its ravaging by industrial waste in one artistic odyssey. Hanson's Waste Land series, published here in its entirety for the first time, is a master photographer's meditation on the country's most dangerously polluted places. Each work in the series juxtaposes the artist's photograph with a modified topographic map and the EPA's own description of the site's history and hazards. Full Product DetailsAuthor: David Hanson , Wendell Berry , Jimena Canales , David HansonPublisher: Taverner Press Imprint: Taverner Press ISBN: 9780692046074ISBN 10: 0692046070 Pages: 176 Publication Date: 24 September 2018 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsHanson's camera intensifies the 67 sites, which range from nuclear plants to asbestos mines, by filling the frame with their sprawling shapes, sludges and scattered mechanical structures.--Elena Saavedra Buckley High Country News Shows industrial damage to the American landscape that may never heal.--Karim Doumar The Atlantic: CityLab [Hanson's] aerial photographs are stunning in their depiction of the horrible transformation of the environment.--Marcus Baram Fast Company Hanson's photographs bear witness to the most enduring monuments the West will leave to future generations.--Bette Sharpe Glendale Daily Planet Showcases the shocking, yet captivating photographs [Hanson] captured showing a wide variety of waste lands.--Regina F. Graham Daily Mail Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |