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Land and Its Uses: Photographs from the Collection

Land and Its Uses: Photographs from the Collection

John Pultz, curator

North Balcony, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

Landscape and land use was the focus of this exhibition in the North Balcony Gallery in conjunction with a seminar on the same topic and the 1994 Murphy Lecture by John Szarowski.

Works of art

Garry Winogrand (1928–1984), Castle Rock, Colorado

Robert Adams (born 1937), Newly Occupied Tract Houses, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Lee Friedlander (born 1934), Albuquerque

Jon Blumb (born 1956), Donkey, Pomona, Kansas

Dr. Harold Eugene Edgerton (1903–1990); Gus Kayafas (born 1947), Lawn Sprinkler

Mark Goodman (born 1946), Kansas

Lewis Baltz (1945–2014), New Irvine Industrial Parks, No. 12

Elliott Erwitt (1928–2023), Teheran

Mark Goodman (born 1946), Kansas

Jack Delano (1914–1997), Sign on highway between Sykesville, Pennsylvania and Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania

Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971), A Concrete Monument to Wine

Roger Minick (born 1944), Freeway Rain, San Bernardino, California

Danny Lyon (born 1942), TDC

Peter Henry Emerson (1856–1936), A Reed Cutter at Work

Marion Post Wolcott (1910–1990), Negro Sharecropper Family Working in Cotton Field, Georgia

William H. Martin (1865–1940), We Grow Large Cabbage

Wright Morris (1910–1998), Gano Grain Elevator, Western Kansas

Edward Weston (1886–1958), Windmill, Taos

Thomas M. Neff (born 1948), Highway 285, Parks County, Colorado

Lawrence McFarland (born 1942), Wheatfield near Kansas-Nebraska Border

Robert Grier (born 1946), Nebraska Landscape

Larry Schwarm (born 1944), Southeastern Washington

Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897–1966), Ruhrgebiet

Hampton F. Shirer (1894–1977), Crown Point and Virginia Mine

Francis Bedford (1816–1894), S.M.T. Viaduct and Quarries

George Andrew Tice (1938–2025), Factories Along the Passaic River, Paterson, New Jersey

Earl Iversen (born 1943), Midway School Athletic Field, near Atchison, Kansas

Alen MacWeeney (born 1939), Horsewoman, Ireland

August Sander (1876–1964), Grüngürtel, Cologne, Germany

Francis Bedford (1816–1894), Colwyn Bay, the Esplanade

Alexander Gardner (1821–1882), Boggs Ranch on the Purgatory, Southern Colorado

Roger Fenton (1819–1869); Frances Firth, View on the Ribble, Yorkshire

A. Brown, untitled

Lathrop, Pike's Peak

Felice Beato (1825–circa 1905), Fujiyama from Hamahaka

Francis Frith (1822–1898), Mount Horeb (Ras Susafeh)

Carleton Emmons Watkins (1829–1916), Grizzly Giant, Mariposa Grove

George N. Barnard (1819–1902), Scene of General McPherson's Death

Jon Blumb (born 1956); Joseph Judd Pennell (1866–1922), John Welsh and Catfish

Jon Blumb (born 1956); Joseph Judd Pennell (1866–1922), Doctor Hannah and Friend

William Henry Jackson (1843–1942), Phantom Curve

Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868–1952), Cree fishing camp

Larry Schwarm (born 1944), Plowed Field/Douglas County, Kansas

Harry Callahan (1912–1999), Cape Cod (#376)

Francis Bedford (1816–1894), Chester, St. John's Ruins

Paul Caponigro (1932–2024), Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England

Marion Post Wolcott (1910–1990), Baptism of members of Primitive Baptist Church in Triplett Creek, Rowan County, near Morehead, Kentucky

Steve Fitch (born 1949), Petroglyphs on Camanche Gap Dike Galister Basin, New Mexico

Harold Haliday Costain, untitled

Eugène Atget (1857–1927); Joel Snyder, Etang de Corot, Ville d'Avray

Terry Evans (born 1944), Terraced Plowing with Grass Waterway, April 1991

Patricia DuBose Duncan (1932–2021), Almost a Tornado

Eugene Carey, High Hat Bombing Squadron, New York World's Fair

Art Sinsabaugh (1924–1983), Under the Freeway

Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard (1802–1872); E. Beneche, Groupe de Cedres du Mt. Liban, Etudes Photographiques

Mark Klett (born 1952), Site of Gould and Curry Mine, Virginia City, Nevada

Timothy H. O'Sullivan (1840–1882), Quartz Mill near Virginia City