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| | Luther Smith: Photographs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | Both regions are hills, both are parts of the whole of the same landscape, but in proximal domestication and distal wildness the two regions posit the human intervention in nature as presence and absence. |
 | | Consider Clearing Storm, Northland, New Zealand, where large electric transmission towers are dwarfed by the space they traverse, marked by a brightening sky at the left horizon, and a darkening sky at the right horizon.. |
 | | Smith's New Zealand photographs are representations of the landscape as site of habitation, in which the human use of the terrain has transformed it, even as Smith's photograph are themselves a further transformation into an image. |
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