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Benjamin Stern "Images we see daily shape our ideas and influence our thoughts. In the United States, landscape images were used in the 19 th century to justify westward expansion, aid in the development of the railroad, and draw investors to the “untamed” land. Photography also influenced the passing of laws to protect areas of land from being stripped and altered for other uses. Photography has additionally been used to document cities as they expand into the deserts, fields and woodlands. To document locations in the landscape with extreme detail, I used a grid method similar to the arrangement of longitude and latitude. Hundreds of close-up images of an area of land are combined to make a photographic reproduction of the site. Apparent in the images is evidence of human interaction revealed through marks on the surface of the land. This topological approach to photography gives insight into how land has been used, organized, and controlled through time.
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