Mattingly’s landscape photographs evoke each site’s geologic timeline.
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Edward Burtynsky Depicts Our Alien Domain
The photographer’s large-scale images depict landscapes altered and scarred by human industry and development.
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Changes on the Land: 19th-Century American Photography East of the Mississippi
East of the Mississippi highlights how early photographic efforts homed in on Americans’ leisure pursuits, particularly travel to popular getaway spots such as Niagara Falls and New England’s White Mountains.
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Photographs of North America’s East Coast Capture Its Fragile Ecosystems
Photographer David Freese journeyed along the continent’s eastern shoreline, documenting it in the face of climate change.
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Overlooked 19th-Century Landscape Photos from East of the Mississippi
An exhibition at the National Gallery of Art highlights the environmental and artistic influence of 19th-century landscape photography in the eastern United States.
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The Beauty and Devastation of Mankind’s Impact on Earth
In his book Overview: A New Perspective of Earth, photographer Benjamin Grant uses satellite imagery to convey the enormity of mankind’s effects on the planet.
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Aerial Views of Where America’s Grid Bends to the Curvature of the Earth
As any traveler who’s gazed out the window of an airplane while flying over the United States knows, the grid reigns.
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Hyperreal Landscapes, Digitally Transformed
Presenting vitas of sweeping landscapes paired with serene color gradients, Mark Dorf’s photographs of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado ferry nature into fantasy.
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Where Primordial Lava Flows into Ice
Iceland, more than most places on the planet, frequently reveals the cataclysmic activity below its crust through volcanoes, fissures, and geothermal pools.
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Photographing a 21st-Century Landscape When the Land Itself Is Disappearing
There’s never been much of a unified scene when it comes to capturing landscapes in art, but maybe more even than before artists are very experimental with how to show a stretch of space.
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Intimate Distances: Kris Graves’ Cold Comfort
The Icelandic landscapes in Kris Graves’ photographs are not pristine, not all of them. There’s a road here, a guardrail there, the lights of a distant town beneath a neon-green aurora borealis.
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Photography at Great Heights
During a particularly arduous training climb on California’s Mt. Baldy, Los Angeles–based creative director and photographer Michael Gabel had an epiphany about the link between an image and the altitude at which it was taken. “I was set on 6,000 vertical feet in six miles and something clicked about tagging photos with the elevation,” he recently explained to Hyperallergic, adding that this solved a key problem: “As a climber and a hiker I love using topographical maps, and naming your photographs is forced and kind of annoying.”