Edward Curtis: Bear’s Belly - Arikara. People talk about a return to nature. I wonder where they...

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Edward Curtis: Bear’s Belly - Arikara

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Page 1: Edward Curtis: Bear’s Belly - Arikara. People talk about a return to nature. I wonder where they went. -- Fred Sommer.

Edward Curtis: Bear’s Belly - Arikara

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People talk about a return to nature. I wonder where they went.

-- Fred Sommer

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Li Sixun (Late 7th century) ; Giovanni di Paolo: Saint John the Baptist Entering the Wilderness (1455)

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Jan van Goyen; View of Dordrecht (1644)

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Bidauld: View of Bridge and the Town of Cava, Kingdom of Naples (1785-90)

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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.

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Caspar David Friedrich: The Wanderer above the Sea of Clouds (1818)

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Carleton Watkins: Yosemite

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Timothy O’Sullivan: Canyon de Chelly

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Paul Cezanne: Mont Sainte Victoire, 1882-85); Carleton Watkins: Yosemite Valley (1866)

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The New TopographicsRobert Adams

Lew BaltzJohn Pfahl

Richard Misrach, et al.

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Robert Adams: Untitled (Denver)

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Ansel Adams: Ansel Adams, Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park, California (c.1937); Robert Adams: Burning Oil Sludge North of Denver (1973)

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Lewis Baltz: South Wall, Semicoa, 333 McCormick, Costa Mesa 1974

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North Wall, Semicoa, 333 McCormick, Costa Mesa, from New Industrial Parks series (1974)

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Lewis Baltz: San Quentin Point (1982-64)

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John Pfahl: Bethlehem, from Smoke series (1989-90); Frederick Church: Twilight in the Wilderness (1860)

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John Pfahl: Three Mile Island, Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania, from Power Places (1982)

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Richard Misrach: Bomb Crater and Destroyed Convoy, Bravo 20 Bombing Range, Nevada (1986); Stranded Rowboat, Salton Sea (1983)

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Richard Misrach, Dead Animals (1987)

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Environmental Art

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Robert Smithson: Monuments of Passaic

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Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty

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James Turrell: Roden Crater

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Walter de Maria: The Lightning Field

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Hamish Fulton: Wind Through the Pines, from Ten Toes Towards the Rainbow

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Dystopias/Utopias

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Mitch Epstein: Amos Coal Power Plant, Raymond, West Virginia, 2004

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Jay Maisel: Terminal Mirage 980-1, 2005 (left); Surveillance 982-7, 2005 (right)

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David T. Hansen: Colstrip, Montana: Power plant and waste ponds; California Gulch, Leadville, Colorado (1983 – 85)

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Simon Starling: One Ton II

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Edward Burtynsky: Shipbreaking #1, Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2000

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Joel Sternfeld: Twelve Tribes Community, Basin Farm, Bellows Falls, VA

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Alec Soth: from Broken Manual series

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Lucas Foglia: Peter Planting Sweet Potato Greens; Khamta Weeding (2004)

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Lucas Foglia:: Homeschooling Chalkboard, Tennessee: Alex's Magnolia Leaf Rain Hat, North Carolina

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Justine Kurland,: from Of Woman Born series

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Justine Kurland: from This Train Is Bound for Glory series

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Agnes Denes: Wheatfield: A Confrontation (2 acres of wheat planted and harvested, Battery Park landfill, Manhattan, summer 1982)

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Agnes Denes: Tree Mountain: A Living Time Capsule (11,000 People, 11,000 Trees, 400 Years) (1992-96, Ylojavi, Finland)

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Mary Mattingly: The New Mobility of Home; In the Navel of the Moon

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Mary Mattingly: Waterpod (2009)

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Adrain Chesser and Timothy White Eagle: from The Return

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Why We Look at Animals

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Julien Dupre: The Young Shepherdess; Franz Hals: Rene Descartes, 1649

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Eadweard Muybridge, ascending stairs, from Animal Locomotion, 1884-85; Etienne-Jules Marey, pelican in flight, c1882

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Jan Van IJken: Artificial Insemination Station

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Alessandra Sanguinetti, from On the Sixth Day

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Nina Katchadourian: Chloe, 1994; video still from Gift/Gift,1999

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Mark Dion: Various Mammals and Birds, 2006

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Amy Stein: from the Domesticated series

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Corrina Schnitt: video still from Once Upon a Time

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Sam Easterson: video still from “Where the Buffalo Roam,” from the Animal, Vegetable, Video series

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Catherine Chalmers: video still from Safari