116:(born January 28, 1948) is an American environmental photographer known for his striking images documenting the impact of human activities on the natural world. His large-format and aerial photographs, mixed-media works, and installations have focused on industrial and military sites. His work has been described as beautiful even though it shows the ravages of activities such as mining, toxic waste sites, industrial pollution, and deforestation. He has exhibited his photographs in many major museums such as the
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said of his artwork, "The history of
Western industrial society's assault on the earth and the devastation it has wrought are the subjects of Hanson's aerial photographs. The images are harsh, distressing and terrible. . . . Hanson’s photographs of this ongoing drama are among the most powerful and
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Initially he focused on naturalistic photographs of the landscape in the tradition of photographers such as Ansel Adams. But in 1982, while on leave from his graduate program, he had an artistic crisis: he realized that nature was changing, that it was being assaulted by industry. While driving to
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Hanson was born on
January 28, 1948, in Billings, Montana. He earned a BA in English from Stanford University in 1970 and a Master of Fine Arts in photography from Rhode Island School of Design in 1983. He was an adjunct professor at Rhode Island School of Design from 1983 to 2000.
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disturbing images ever to be seen, perhaps because their eerie, abstract beauty almost seems to negate the sinister, hidden life which glimmers in them: landscape as Eros transformed into landscape as
Thanatos."
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Since the late 1980s Hanson has worked with regional and national environmental organizations and legislators on mining reform, hazardous waste issues, and energy production and climate change.
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Hanson began to photograph as an undergraduate at
Stanford, but he made a serious commitment to art when he took a nine-month private workshop from American photographer
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Hanson's mixed-media installations have addressed North
Carolina industries and endangered species, the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, and U.S. nuclear tests.
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series is a stunning documentary of a century of organized state terrorism against the North
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from 1975 to 78. After spending a year photographing in France and Italy on a
Camargo Foundation Fellowship, he worked as an assistant to
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His photographs of the coal strip mine, power plant, and factory town in
Colstrip were subsequently exhibited at the
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Thornton, Genie (August 19, 1984). "The Modern Still Favors the
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In 2016 Hanson published a retrospective volume of his work from 1982 to 1990,
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in New York in 1984 and 1986, bringing widespread attention to his work.
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A mid-career survey of his work was published in 1997 by Aperture as
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Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography Since 1970
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Hanson has received a number of awards for his work, including a
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in New York City, and his exhibitions have been widely reviewed.
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743:"David T. Hanson - Artists - Joseph Bellows Gallery"
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