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February 20, 2003
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Reclaiming the American West
While Ansel Adams sought out the most spectacular scenery in the American West and photographed it in ways that exclude all signs of human interference, Alan Berger of the Graduate School of Design does just the opposite. He seeks out those parts of the Western landscape that no one wants to look at -- the vast terraced pits of abandoned gold and copper mines, the mountains of slag and tailings, the pools of cyanide. Berger has written a book, "Reclaiming the American West." (Staff photo by Kris Snibbe)
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HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES
Professor presents hideous flip side of Western sublime
Berger's new book is "Reclaiming the American West"
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