CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 1/15/2020

Exquisite activism in David Benjamin Sherry's 'American Monuments'

"Devils Garden, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah" is reproduced from David Benjamin Sherry's deluxe new Radius Books monograph, American Monuments, collecting Shery's vibrant, large-format photographs of national monuments under review following the 2017 executive order that has threatened to shrink or redefine many of them. "The candescent photography of David Benjamin Sherry shatters the frontier myth of a world that exists in black and white," Terry Tempest Williams writes. "Call these disruptive images of color as a queering of the American landscape. We can no longer afford to frame this vast territory as belonging only to the rugged individualist, the Marlboro Man riding upright on his high horse trying to corral anything or anyone that looks different than he does."