Landscape: Photography and Geography, 2016
This winter term course, equal parts geography, photography, and art history, focused on human/environment interaction. The photos and text 1n this exhibit draw upon:
• Geographic concepts of landscape, space, time and place
• Photography field trips to three Middlebury landscapes: the 'built environment' of the village of Middlebury; the 'natural landscape ' of the college's Jackson Property, and the 'manufactured' landscape of the OMYA quarry.
• History of landscape photography: photographers with the Great Surveys of the 19th century; preservation photos of Ansel Adams; New Topographic photographers of the mid-1970s ; and the contemporary photographer Edward Burtynsky.
