Colstrip, Montana: David T. Hanson
Hardcover
2010 · Fairfield, Iowa
by Bass, Rick and David T. Hanson
Fairfield, Iowa: Taverner Press, 2010. Hardcover. VG- (May have small blue ink mark on front of dust jacket.). Black stamped cloth, gray & color illus. dust jacket, unpaginated, 82 color plates. "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."( dj). (Inventory #: 140926)