Disarming the Prairie (Creating the North American Landscape)
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"Numerous color photographs chronicle the abandoned and decaying facilities of the area and demonstrate its potential as a prairie park. The essay and photographs are clear witness for how other areas of this type might be transformed into valuable national natural resources in the next millennium." -- Choice
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"Terry Evans's pictures combine the pleasures of picturesque beauty with a tempered awareness of mankind's destructive potential. Without compromising either truth or beauty, her photographs are instructive and unforgettable reminders of life's fragility and resilience." -- Merry Foresta, Senior Curator of Photography, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
"Terry Evans is one of the few seasoned photographic artists to have mastered the mechanics of picture taking to the point that second nature takes over, freeing her to participate in conversations with her objects. These photographs allow us to listen in on those private conversations revealing truths a mere picture taker would be denied." -- Wes Jackson, The Land Institute
"Ms. Evans has created for us an intelligent and meticulous record of Midewin's present moment -- a hushed, between-breaths pause in the life of a historic landscape. The military has moved on; the prairie healers are about to move in. At Midewin we see a place that is poised, waiting, at its turning point, about to flow back into the pattern it was diverted from but never quite deserted." -- Tony Hiss, from the Introduction
Disarming the Prairie (Creating the North American Landscape)
Disarming the Prairie (Creating the North American Landscape),Terry Evans,Tony Hiss,The Johns Hopkins University Press,0801859352,Chicago Region,Chicago Region (Ill.),Environmental Conservation & Protection - General,Environmental Studies,Exhibitions,Illinois,Military base conversion,Photo Essays,Photography,Pictorial works,Prairies,Subjects & Themes - Plants & Animals,Subjects & Themes - Travel - U.S./Midwest,United States - State & Local - General,Science / Environmental Science
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