Surveying the Future: Art and Real Estate in the New American West

Event Description

In the 1960s and 70s the landscape and image of the American West underwent a profound transformation--from endless frontier to the sprawling built environment underwriting a global economy. How did photographers, both professional and amateur, seek to make sense of this change through their work, and what can reviewing their images nearly 50 years on tell us about the complex relationship between visual culture and historical change as observed in the everyday environment?

Susanna Newbury, Ph.D. candidate, History of Art Department, Yale University