Edward Curtis Bears Belly Arikara People talk about

Edward Curtis: Bear’s Belly - Arikara

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

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

Jan van Goyen; View of Dordrecht (1644)

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

Album of 131 Views of a French Family and Their Travels], 1880 s– 1900 s; accordion-style album of Japan, 1870 s; in the background, a Felice Beato album, 1860 s.

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

Carleton Watkins: Yosemite

Timothy O’Sullivan: Canyon de Chelly

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

The New Topographics Robert Adams Lew Baltz John Pfahl Richard Misrach, et al.

Robert Adams: Untitled (Denver)

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

Lewis Baltz: South Wall, Semicoa, 333 Mc. Cormick, Costa Mesa 1974

North Wall, Semicoa, 333 Mc. Cormick, Costa Mesa, from New Industrial Parks series (1974)

Lewis Baltz: San Quentin Point (1982 -64)

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

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

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

Richard Misrach, Dead Animals (1987)

Environmental Art

Robert Smithson: Monuments of Passaic

Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty

James Turrell: Roden Crater

Walter de Maria: The Lightning Field

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

Dystopias/Utopias

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

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

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

Simon Starling: One Ton II

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

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

Alec Soth: from Broken Manual series

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

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

Justine Kurland, : from Of Woman Born series

Justine Kurland: from This Train Is Bound for Glory series

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

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

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

Mary Mattingly: Waterpod (2009)

Adrain Chesser and Timothy White Eagle: from The Return

Why We Look at Animals

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

Eadweard Muybridge, ascending stairs, from Animal Locomotion, 1884 -85; Etienne-Jules Marey, pelican in flight, c 1882

Jan Van IJken: Artificial Insemination Station

Alessandra Sanguinetti, from On the Sixth Day

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

Mark Dion: Various Mammals and Birds, 2006

Amy Stein: from the Domesticated series

Corrina Schnitt: video still from Once Upon a Time

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

Catherine Chalmers: video still from Safari