Poignant and provocative, Crossing the Frontier is the first major photographic exploration of human use, development, and abuse of the Western landscape. Published to accompany a San Francisco Museum of Modern Art exhibition, the photographs in Crossing the Frontier are powerful, vivid, and unsentimental, spanning almost 150 years and including both found images and works by major classic and contemporary photographers. Also featured are essays on the photography, geology, mythology, and architecture of the West by four distinguished authors. In stark contrast to photography books that carefully present nature at its most pristine, Crossing the Frontier finds beauty in the devastation of the terrain, and explores the complex social, political, and cultural ramifications of this transformation.
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The tradition of landscape photography is explored in this volume, published in conjunction with a traveling exhibit conceived and organized by art historian Sandra Phillips. The rapid advance of industrialization is documented, along with the ever-increasing human encroachment on the environment. The photography of land use--as depicted by the work of largely obscure journeymen--is of more weight in this study than the better known tradition of artistic landscape photography represented by Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. The most arresting images are those made by people who have been long forgotten, like George H. Johnson's daguerreotype of miners laboring on the American River near Sacramento, California.
About the Author
Richard Rodriguez is an on-air essayist for the Newshour with Jim Lehrer, and the author of two memoirs.
Sandra Phillips has been the curator of photography at the SFMOMA since 1987.
Aaron Betsky is curator of architecture and design at the SFMOMA.
Eldridge Moores is professor of geology at the University of California at Davis and the subject of Joh McPhee's book, Assembling California.
Sandra Phillips has been the curator of photography at the SFMOMA since 1987.
Aaron Betsky is curator of architecture and design at the SFMOMA.
Eldridge Moores is professor of geology at the University of California at Davis and the subject of Joh McPhee's book, Assembling California.
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This review is from: Crossing the Frontier: Photographs of the Developing West, 1849 to the Present (Paperback)
Needed better selection -- only one or two pictures really showed the land development.... the changes "wrought upon the land." Others were just usual hokey pictures. Nice format though.
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