For more information on the work of David T. Hanson, see his monograph Waste Land: Meditations on a Ravaged Landscape (Aperture, New York, 1997).

David T. Hanson was born and raised in Montana, and was awarded a B.A. in English Literature from Stanford University. He studied with and worked as an assistant to Minor White and Frederick Sommer, and earned an M.F.A. in Photography from Rhode Island School of Design. A photographer, mixed-media installation artist, writer and teacher, he taught in the departments of Photography and Landscape Architecture at Rhode Island School of Design from 1983-2000. He has received a number of awards for his work, including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and two National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowships. One of Hanson’s aerial views of Colstrip, Montana was selected by The New York Times’ photography critic Vicki Goldberg as one of the 100 most important photographs of the 20th century. Hanson’s work is in the permanent collections of major museums throughout the world, including The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. His work has been featured in numerous museum exhibitions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. Hanson’s photographs have been included in multiple exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art in New York (four shows), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (two shows), and The Art Institute of Chicago (three shows, including a solo exhibition). In 1997, Aperture published a monograph of Hanson’s photographic work, Waste Land: Meditations on a Ravaged Landscape. Selections from Hanson’s Waste Land series are featured in two current exhibitions (with catalogues): Imaging a Shattering Earth: Contemporary Photography and the Environmental Debate (Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto) and The Body At Risk (International Center of Photography, New York, New York).