For more information on the work of David T. Hanson, see his five monographs:

The Cloud of Unknowing (Taverner Press, 2019).

Waste Land (Taverner Press, 2018).

Wilderness to Wasteland (Taverner Press, 2016).

Colstrip, Montana (Taverner Press, 2010). A special collector’s edition is also available from Taverner Press.

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 Minor White and worked as an assistant to 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 (1985) and two National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowships (1986 and 1994). 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 (five shows), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (three shows), and The Art Institute of Chicago (three shows, including a solo exhibition). In 1997, Aperture published a mid-career retrospective of Hanson’s photographic work, Waste Land: Meditations on a Ravaged Landscape. Hanson’s work was recently included in Picturing Modernity: The Photography Collection at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the major exhibition (with full catalogue) Into the Sunset: Photography’s Image of the American West at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 2010, Hanson published his monograph, Colstrip, Montana. A special collector’s edition of Colstrip, Montana is available from Taverner Press (www.tavernerpress.com). Recent monographs include Wilderness to Wasteland (Taverner Press, 2016), Waste Land (Taverner Press, 2018), and The Cloud of Unknowing (Taverner Press, 2019).