Chris Faust

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Chris Faust (born 1955) is a prolific landscape photographer in St. Paul, Minnesota. He holds a degree in biology from Saint Cloud State University.

He is best known for his panoramic photographs of landscapes. From 1990 to 1996 he created a series of black-and-white images of new suburban development, especially in Minnesota. Many of these depict new structures and spaces not yet fully-formed, and not yet inhabited by people. A frequent theme is the intersection of humans with nature, and places where the two interact in visually provocative ways.

Other of his series include outdoor industrial scenes typical of the northern midwest like grain elevators and railcars, rural landscapes from Minnesota and Appalachia, and color photographs of natural scenes.

Faust's work is exhibited regularly in galleries around Minnesota. His work appears in a number of restaurants and coffee shops in the St. Paul area, and is held by the permanent collections of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Weisman Art Museum, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

A large number of his works illustrate the 1997 book Placing Nature: Culture and Lanscape Ecology, edited by landscape architect Joan Nassauer, including essays by Jane Smiley and Marcia Eaton.

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