A Sense of Place

In our culture, the natural landscape has increasingly become more of an idea than a place, a view from behind a car window, or a vista in the distance beyond a look-out point guard rail.

As we have become progressively removed from the actual landscape, first as an industrial, and now as an informational society, the natural landscape has correspondingly become a concept more and more idealized, subjectified, and homogenized. The idea, as opposed to the reality, of the American landscape--frontier, wilderness--has taken on a significance of mythic proportions, treasured as a backdrop to our collective national unconsciousness.

The images included in this work concern themselves with this irony, this disparity between our perception of the landscape and the reality of it. The photographs focus on sites, monuments and markers existing within the landscape: man-made markers within the natural landscape, natural markers within the man-made landscape. Like life and art, natural and man-made elements appear to imitate one another.

--excerpt from the introduction to A Sense of Place, written by Stephen M. Schaub with Eve Ogden Schaub

Details: 8" x 13" | saddle stitched | 28 pages | 12
illustrations | Publisher: Stephen M. Schaub Photography | ISBN
0-9669079-0-6 | 1999

Printed at the Stinehour Press as 300 Line Screen Tri-Tones.Limited to 1000 copies, each numbered and signed by the artist.