"Wheatfield - A Confrontation"
This early work of Agnes Denes involved planting food, a theme that appeared in "Wheatfield."
What is "Rice/Tree/Burial?"
Many of the themes of Noah Purifoy's works stemmed from this hardship he faced growing up.
What is discrimination and racism?
"Caribou Migration I" shares its photography style with this Section Two piece.
What is "Church Rock Spill Evaporation Ponds?"
"Marat (Sebastiao)" was apart of the series "Pictures of Garbage," which was inspired by garbage collecters in this South American country.
What is Brazil?
What is pollution?
Denes planted her now famous wheatfield on this Manhattan landfill.
What is the Battery Park landfill?
"66 Signs of Neon" was created as a direct response to this Los Angeles Riot.
What was the Watts Rebellion?
Subhankar Banerjee lived here for fourteen months while collecting photographs of the environment.
What is the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge?
This is the name given to the Brazillian garbage collecters that inspired Muniz.
What are catadores?
Three of the works in Section Three utilize this medium to convey the final product.
What is photography?
After the end of "Wheatfield," Denes described the wheat as being harvested and doing this charitable act.
What is feeding the poor and giving them a source of food?
This subset of environmentalism is the main focus of "Offshore Drilling."
What is environmental racism?
The caribou shown in "Caribou Migration I" are a major food source for this native Alaskan tribe.
Who are the Gwich'in?
Muniz's piece "Double Mona Lisa" was created using these two common household ingredients.
What are peanut butter and jelly?
Half of the works in Section Three were inspired by landfills, but the other half were inspired by this method of resource extraction.
What is oil drilling?
The land used for "Wheatfield - A Confrontation" was located directly under this New York landmark.
What is the World Trade Center?
Who is Noah Purifoy?
Many of Banerjee's photographs from the ANWR, including "Caribou Migration I," were used in this year to pass a bill blocking oil drilling and gas extraction.
What is 2019?
The pose of the man in "Marat (Sebastiao)" was originally painted in 1793 by this French artist.
Who is Jacques-Louis David?
This is a popular method of documenting stills to compare them to the past and future.
What is documentary photography?
This project followed "Wheatfield," despite being thought up the same year that work was created.
What is "Tree Mountain?"
The location and style of "Offshore Drilling" can be compared to this oil spill that occurred two and a half decades before its creation.
What was the 1969 Santa Barbra oil spill?
This president signed an executive offer on his first day in office to put a moratorium on drilling in the ANWR.
Who is President Joe Biden?
After selling the photographs from the "Pictures of Garbage" series, Muniz did this to some of the profits.
What is giving the profits back to the catadores?
The process of making the brutal appearance of pollution look beautiful is called this.
What is toxic sublime?