People have known for thousands of years that oil was abundant on Alaska's North Slope, a vast tundra, flat and treeless, on and on and on, from the foothills of the Brooks Mountain Range to the Arctic Ocean, an endless, unchanging landscape bigger than Idaho.
I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.
When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.
For thousands of years, the most physically imposing buildings on earth were temples, churches, and mosques. But in the 20th century, new houses of worship came to dominate the landscape. Yankee Stadium is the most storied of these contemporary shrines.