American Monuments is a landscape photography project that captures the spirit and intrinsic value of America’s threatened system of national monuments - our natural monuments. This stunning book focuses on the areas under review for mining or oil production, with special emphasis on those that have already been decimated. David Benjamin Sherry documents these pristine, sacred, and wildly diverse areas using the traditional, historic 8×10 large format.

The resulting photographs not only convey the beauty of these important and ecologically diverse sites, but also shed light upon the plight of the perennially exploited landscape of the American West.