Victoria Sambunaris: Transformation of a Landscape gathers a decade of photographs from the artist’s ongoing, twenty-four-year series “Taxonomy of a Landscape.” Published by Radius Books in 2024, it presents the American landscape not as a fixed scenic category but as a territory continually altered by political, technological, and industrial forces.

Sambunaris works through sustained movement and close observation. Based in New York, she spends several months each year crossing the country alone, carrying a 5×7-inch field camera, a video camera, and research materials, while camping on top of her car. This method gives the photographs a distinctive relation to time: they are made through repeated encounters with places whose surfaces, uses, and meanings are in the process of changing.

The book’s scope extends beyond finished images. Alongside the project-based photographs are snapshots, maps, road logs, journals, geology and history books, mineral specimens, and other artifacts gathered on the road. Such material situates the photographs within a broader practice of research, where landscape is read through evidence, memory, geology, infrastructure, and lived experience. The result is not simply a sequence of views, but a layered record of looking and of the conditions that make looking possible.

For collectors, the volume is significant as Sambunaris’s second monograph with Radius and as a substantial account of a long-duration photographic project. Its 126 pages and large hardcover format give room to the interplay between image, archive, and fieldwork. The book’s value lies in that sustained structure: it makes visible how an American landscape can be pictured as both physical environment and historical process.