Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970 — Makeda Best (ed.) — Harvard Art Museums — 2021

Military activity leaves marks far beyond the battlefield, and this catalogue asks how American landscape photography has made those consequences visible since 1970. Edited by Makeda Best, it brings photographs together with essays and artist interviews to consider contamination, land use and the environmental costs of militarism within the United States. Familiar landscape traditions take on a different political weight when land is read through the institutions and decisions that shape it. Contributors and photographers offer several ways of approaching that problem, linking observation to ecological concern and public responsibility. Published by Harvard Art Museums, the volume gives the subject both visual breadth and a substantial critical framework, showing how apparently ordinary terrain can hold evidence of war.

Technical Sheet
Title: Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970
Artist / Author: Makeda Best (ed.)
Date: 2021
Medium / Materials: Softcover, Wire-O binding
Dimensions: 25.4 × 20.32 cm
Pages: 262
Language: English
Printing / Production: Printed in Belgium by die Keure
Publisher: Harvard Art Museums
ISBN: 9780300260083