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David T. Hanson

Coal strip mine, power plant and waste ponds, 1984

Description

Maker

  • David T. Hanson, b. 1948, American, (RISD MFA 1983, Photography)

Title

Coal strip mine, power plant and waste ponds

Year

1984

Medium

Color chromogenic print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • chromogenic color print

Dimensions

Image: 36.8 x 45.7 cm (14 1/2 x 18 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed in black marker LL: Colstrip Montana:Coal strip mine, power plant and waste ponds.January 1984.

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Photographs

Credit

Museum Purchase: Gift of the Artist's Development Fund of the Rhode Island Foundation

Object Number

1988.015

Projects & Publications

Publications

America in View

Landscape Photography 1865 to Now

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

America in View

September 21, 2012 - January 13, 2013

David Hanson has examined the abandoned and still working coal strip mines near his hometown in Montana in work he calls “a document of a late stage in the exploration and development of the American continent.”

RISD and Photography

June 5 - October 26, 2008

Hanson has completed several bodies of work that investigate the landscape as a reflection of our culture, both positively and negatively. The “Colstrip Montana” series documents the region where he grew up, which had the largest coal strip mine on this continent. The series of 66 images includes company houses, mines, the power plant, and ends with the aerial views, including this one. When his book, Wasteland: Meditations on a Ravaged Landscape, was published in 1997, he stated: “The aerial view increasingly seemed to be the most appropriate form of representation for the late twentieth-century landscape: an abstracted and distanced technological view of the earth, mirroring the military’s application of aerial photography for surveillance and targeting.”

Photography and Place

January 23 - April 4, 2004

The RISD Eye

March 8 - May 5, 1991

Gifts from the Rhode Island Foundation

January 6 - February 26, 1989

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is Coal strip mine, power plant and waste ponds with the accession number of 1988.015. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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