American monuments / David Benjamin Sherry.

Photographer
Sherry, David Benjamin [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Santa Fe, NM : Radius Books, [2019]
  • New York, NY : Available through D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
  • Verona, Italy : Editoriale Bortolazzi-Stei
  • ©2019
Description
93 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 34 cm

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    Summary note
    American Monuments is a landscape photography project that captures the spirit and intrinsic value of America's threatened system of national monuments. In April 2017 an executive order called for the review of the 27 national monuments created since January 1996. In December 2017 the final report called on the president to shrink four national monuments and change the management of six others, recommending that areas in Maine, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans be offered for sale, specifically for oil drilling and coal and uranium mining. 'American Monuments' focuses on the areas under review, with special emphasis on those that have already been decimated. Sherry documents these pristine, sacred, and wildly diverse areas using the traditional, historic 8x10 large format. The resulting photographs not only convey the beauty of these important and ecologically diverse sites, but also shed light upon the plight of the perennially exploited landscape of the American West.
    Notes
    • Title from cover.
    • Illustrations tipped in.
    • "Design: David Benjamin Sherry, David Chickey, Montana Currie"--Colophon.
    Contents
    • Monumental light / Terry Tempest Williams
    • Wild time / Natalie Mering
    • Contested lands / Bill McKibben
    • A note on the work / David Benjamin Sherry
    • Acknowledgments / David Benjamin Sherry.
    ISBN
    • 9781942185611 ((hbk.))
    • 1942185618 ((hbk.))
    • 9781942185505
    • 1942185502
    LCCN
    2020300904
    OCLC
    1105602705
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