What Is It?

The Altered Landscape Photography Collection is the largest focus collection of the Nevada Museum of Art permanent collection. Since its establishment in the early 1990s, the collection has included images that address and engage issues related to land use and the changing landscape.

Much inspiration for this theme  was deprived from a group known as the New Topographic photographers; they made works that framed industrial structures, suburban developments, and other ordinary subjects with unprecedented matter-of-fact realism.

Now, the term ‘Altered Landscapes’ refers to a variety of different subjects and approaches, these range from surreal images where Photoshop and editing plays a large part to purposely visibly cut and pasted imagery. Due to this, altered landscapes is a very open theme to work with.