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==Career==

Hanson began to photograph as an undergraduate at Stanford, but he made a serious commitment to art when he took a nine-month private workshop from American photographer [[Minor White]] in 1973. He served on the Artart Facultyfaculty at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts from 1975-78. After spending a year photographing in France and Italy on a Camargo Foundation Fellowship, he worked as an assistant to Frederick Sommer.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Canales |first=Jimena |title=Waste Land |publisher=Taverner Press |year=2018 |location=Fairfield, Iowa |pages=163-171 |language=English}}</ref>

Initially he focused on naturalistic photographs of the landscape in the tradition of photographers such as Ansel Adams. But in 1982, while on leave from his graduate program, he had an artistic crisis: he realized that nature was changing, that it was being assaulted by industry. While driving to his parents' house in Billings, he came across [[Colstrip, Montana]], a mining town in an area where the landscape had been ruined. He made that his subject, taking wide-angle and aerial photographs.<ref name="Newsweek" />