This exhibition will include photographs that chronicle desert lands of the American West - from the high sagebrush steppe of Idaho to the salt flats of Utah to the edge of Joshua Tree National Park. Collectively, the pictures evoke contemplation of how we use the earth and to what ends. Made with film and a large-format view camera, the photographs envelop time, both geologic and human. A meditation on our material lives and the consequences of humanity's attempts to manage nature, the images depict our paradoxical efforts as we variously restore, protect, alter, and exploit the land.