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The American landscape is one of the country鈥檚 most enduring artistic subjects, and has inspired generations of artists. The painters of the Hudson River School saw the sublime in it while survey photographers of the nineteenth century documented its distinctive features in images that often suggest supernatural majesty. Even in the twentieth century, as the land became increasingly settled and developed, the idyllic view of the American landscape persisted, notably in photographs by Ansel Adams. By the 1970s, however, a more prosaic view began to emerge鈥攐ne informed by the reality of the interstate highway system and civilization鈥檚 rapid expansion into suburbs and exurbs. Landscapes in Passing: Photographs by Steve Fitch, Robbert Flick, and Elaine Mayes presents forty-eight photographs that depict the American landscape in passing, as drive-through scenery rather than the entrancing wilderness of the nineteenth century. These photographs, created in the 1970s and 1980s, invoke an increasingly mobile society and the telegraphic relationship to the natural world that it encourages. Decades later, these observations continue to resonate in an even more mediated contemporary environment.