Steven B. Smith, Washington, Utah

Raw earth graded for new housing, a partly built subdivision on the edge of desert.

Steven B. Smith, Washington, Utah, 1997. Source. Reproduced here for criticism and comment. Rights remain with the photographer or their estate.

Steven B Smith, Washington, Utah 1997 — in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

Is there any other country whose photography is so continuously perturbed by the land?

Are we scarred by the dream of Thomas Moran and Albert Bierstadt (here, Storm in the Mountains, 1870.)