Saint Ansel among the Philistines: Art and Politics in American Landscape Photography.

The author, curator of the exhibition "Changing Visions of the
American Landscape" on view in the James A. Michener Art Museum,
Philadelphia, discusses Landscape Photography in its political
contexts, commenting on Ansel Adams's traditional landscape
photography and his connection with the environmental Sierra
Club, and comparing Adams with the new generation of landscape
photographers like Robert Adams, Richard Misrach and John Pfahl
who "deliberately sought out places where the natural and
man-made worlds meet". "This abandonement of the idealized
vision of nature comes from a growing sense of urgency and
outrage about the ever- increasing pace of development and its
resulting environmental degradation".
James A. Michener Art Museum, Philadelphia, USA
Curator