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Edward Curtis: Bear’s Belly - Arikara
People talk about a return to nature. I wonder where they went.
-- Fred Sommer
Li Sixun (Late 7th century) ; Giovanni di Paolo: Saint John the Baptist Entering the Wilderness (1455)
Jan van Goyen; View of Dordrecht (1644)
Bidauld: View of Bridge and the Town of Cava, Kingdom of Naples (1785-90)
Album of 131 Views of a French Family and Their Travels], 1880s–1900s; accordion-style album of Japan, 1870s; in the background, a Felice Beato album, 1860s.
Caspar David Friedrich: The Wanderer above the Sea of Clouds (1818)
Carleton Watkins: Yosemite
Timothy O’Sullivan: Canyon de Chelly
Paul Cezanne: Mont Sainte Victoire, 1882-85); Carleton Watkins: Yosemite Valley (1866)
The New TopographicsRobert Adams
Lew BaltzJohn Pfahl
Richard Misrach, et al.
Robert Adams: Untitled (Denver)
Ansel Adams: Ansel Adams, Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park, California (c.1937); Robert Adams: Burning Oil Sludge North of Denver (1973)
Lewis Baltz: South Wall, Semicoa, 333 McCormick, Costa Mesa 1974
North Wall, Semicoa, 333 McCormick, Costa Mesa, from New Industrial Parks series (1974)
Lewis Baltz: San Quentin Point (1982-64)
John Pfahl: Bethlehem, from Smoke series (1989-90); Frederick Church: Twilight in the Wilderness (1860)
John Pfahl: Three Mile Island, Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania, from Power Places (1982)
Richard Misrach: Bomb Crater and Destroyed Convoy, Bravo 20 Bombing Range, Nevada (1986); Stranded Rowboat, Salton Sea (1983)
Richard Misrach, Dead Animals (1987)
Environmental Art
Robert Smithson: Monuments of Passaic
Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty
James Turrell: Roden Crater
Walter de Maria: The Lightning Field
Hamish Fulton: Wind Through the Pines, from Ten Toes Towards the Rainbow
Dystopias/Utopias
Mitch Epstein: Amos Coal Power Plant, Raymond, West Virginia, 2004
Jay Maisel: Terminal Mirage 980-1, 2005 (left); Surveillance 982-7, 2005 (right)
David T. Hansen: Colstrip, Montana: Power plant and waste ponds; California Gulch, Leadville, Colorado (1983 – 85)
Simon Starling: One Ton II
Edward Burtynsky: Shipbreaking #1, Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2000
Joel Sternfeld: Twelve Tribes Community, Basin Farm, Bellows Falls, VA
Alec Soth: from Broken Manual series
Lucas Foglia: Peter Planting Sweet Potato Greens; Khamta Weeding (2004)
Lucas Foglia:: Homeschooling Chalkboard, Tennessee: Alex's Magnolia Leaf Rain Hat, North Carolina
Justine Kurland,: from Of Woman Born series
Justine Kurland: from This Train Is Bound for Glory series
Agnes Denes: Wheatfield: A Confrontation (2 acres of wheat planted and harvested, Battery Park landfill, Manhattan, summer 1982)
Agnes Denes: Tree Mountain: A Living Time Capsule (11,000 People, 11,000 Trees, 400 Years) (1992-96, Ylojavi, Finland)
Mary Mattingly: The New Mobility of Home; In the Navel of the Moon
Mary Mattingly: Waterpod (2009)
Adrain Chesser and Timothy White Eagle: from The Return
Why We Look at Animals
Julien Dupre: The Young Shepherdess; Franz Hals: Rene Descartes, 1649
Eadweard Muybridge, ascending stairs, from Animal Locomotion, 1884-85; Etienne-Jules Marey, pelican in flight, c1882
Jan Van IJken: Artificial Insemination Station
Alessandra Sanguinetti, from On the Sixth Day
Nina Katchadourian: Chloe, 1994; video still from Gift/Gift,1999
Mark Dion: Various Mammals and Birds, 2006
Amy Stein: from the Domesticated series
Corrina Schnitt: video still from Once Upon a Time
Sam Easterson: video still from “Where the Buffalo Roam,” from the Animal, Vegetable, Video series
