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.
- ISBN10 0918471389
- ISBN13 9780918471383
- Publish Date 1 September 1996
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 2 October 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Format Hardcover
- Language English