LANDSCAPE
PHOTOGRAPHY
The books
in this section feature landscape photography by individual photographers.
Many books of landscape photography may not appear in this listing,
but will be listed in the monographs section of this web site. If you
are seeking landscape, wildlife, or nature photography work by a specific
photographer you may also want to look within the monographs
section.
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The listing
here is alphabetical by the photographer's last name.
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Yosemite
and the High Sierra,
Ansel Adams
1994, Bullfinch
10.36" x 12.15", 136 pgs.
List price: $55.00 |
"A compilation
drawn from the photographer's classic books features several images
from his last work, Yosemite and the Range of Light and
includes excerpts from his most noted writings." |
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American
Wilderness: The Photographs of Ansel Adams,
Ansel Adams
2002, Courage Books
11.75" x 11.82", 128 pgs.
(used copies available) |
"This
is the noted photographer's last book project, begun two years before
his death in 1984 at the suggestion of his friend, Wilderness Society
president William Turnage. The straightforward design takes pertinent
quotations from Adams's writings on wilderness conservation and
interleaves them with informal subject groupings of photographs:
Yosemite, ocean beaches, Yellowstone, Hawaii, trees, plants, and
flowers. Turnage's warm introduction helps readers grasp in concrete
terms the early shaping of Adams's commitment to nature conservation,
his prodigious output and accomplishments, his visual legacy, and
the success of his mission, spanning six decades, to preserve America's
wild places. The quality of the large reproductions, from prints
prepared by Adams's associate John Sexton, could not be finer." |
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Notes
for Friends: Along the Colorado Roads,
Robert Adams
1999, University of Colorado Press
10.5" x 9.5", 80 pgs.
List price: $16.95 |
"In
Notes For Friends, world-renowned photographer Robert Adams
explores the possibility of discovering beauty in the compromised
landscape of the new American West. His photographs, rendering the
landscape in rich black-and-white images, clearly demonstrate that
beauty can be found, suggesting a new kind of exploration that could
yield a transforming discovery--the basis for a love of home. Pictures
in the book reacquaint us with places that we may have lost to habit
or prejudice. Robert Adams encourages us to walk minor roads that
at first appear inconsequential, but that in fact lead to wonder.
Light rains its miracle on fields next to suburban developments,
across the slopes of nameless foothills, and onto trees next to
expressways." |
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Industrial Landscapes
Bernd and Hilla Becher
2002, MIT Press
12"
x 9.5", 270 pp
List price: $85.00
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Bernd and Hilla Becher have profoundly influenced
the international photography world over the past several decades.
Their unique genre, which falls somewhere between topological documentation
and conceptual art, is in line with the aesthetics of such early-twentieth-century
masters of German photography as Karl Blossfeldt, Germaine Krull,
Albert Renger-Patzsch, and August Sander.
Industrial Landscapes introduces a new aspect to the
Bechers’ photography, one that will surprise connoisseurs
of their work. Whereas their previously published works concentrated
on isolated industrial objects, they now show huge industrial
sites amid their natural surroundings. They move away from the
objective, severe image to present slightly more narrative, interpretive
images of the industrial environment as a whole. Although the
photographs in Industrial Landscapes were taken over
the past forty years, they are published here for the first time.
The industrial structures shown include a wide range of coal
mines, iron ore mines, steel mills, power stations with cooling
towers, lime kilns, grain elevators, and so on. They represent
industrial regions in Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain,
the Netherlands, and the United States (Alabama, Michigan, Ohio,
and Pennsylvania).
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Egypt:
Antiquities from Above,
Marilyn Bridges
Little Brown & Company
12.5" x 11.75", 128 pgs.
(out of print, used copies available) |
Introduction
by Penelope Lively
Aerial photographs of Egypt. |
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This
Land is Your Land,
Marilyn Bridges
1997 Aperture
12.5 x 11", 108 pp.
List price: $50.00
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80 black-and-white
images 108 Pages
Essay by William Least Heat-Moon
``For her, the face of the earth is one glyph after another shrouded
in shadows to be exposed and interpreted.'' - William Least Heat-Moon
This is a
stunning volume of images with the usual superb Aperture reproductions.
- ed.
Marilyn Bridges is an aerial photographer who
has explored ancient cultures around the world for more than a
decade. In This Land Is Your Land Bridges focuses her attention
on the grandeur of the American landscape, taking us on an inspiring
journey over the landmarks and signatures etched into the continent. |
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Yangtze Remembered: The
River Beneath the Lake,
Linda Butler
2004, Stanford University Press
11.5" x 13", 204 pp.
List price: $65.00
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Forward by Simon Winchester
Yangtze Remembered is both a measured and a passionate book.
The powerful images reveal much that we have never seen before and
cannot ever see again. - 112 black-and-white illustrations
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Monument,
Lynn Davis
1999, Arena Editions
11.75" x 11", 144 pp
List price: $65.00
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"This
superb book of large-format photographs pays homage to the concept
of "monument". Both as natural forms and ancient ruins
of human creation. Collected here are ghostly photographs of icebergs
sculpted by wind, atmospheric images of geysers, striking portrayals
of rock formations, misty images of Niagara Falls, and pictures
of the pyramids and the Meenakshi Temple. Each of the photographs
is brilliantly executed, both technically and aesthetically, and
the breadth of the photoessay is most impressive. The book as
a whole is beautifully designed and printed, and the 60 plates
are carefully reproduced on matte paper, giving the whole thing
a touch of antique character. Gazing at these magnificent structures,
now crumbling back into the earth, one is left with a sense of
quiet dignity and wonder. A fine book by an outstanding photographer
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Lynn Davis’
photographs are accompanied by texts by Patti Smith and Rudolph
Wurlitzer that contemplate the sheer beauty of Davis’ photography
and the context of travel in which they are produced." |
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Elemental
Landscapes,
Harry Callahan
2001, Philadelphia Museum of Art
12.06" x 9", 56 pgs.
List price: $20.00
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"Elemental
Landscapes" accompanies an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum
of Art that concentrates exclusively on the landscape photographs
of the late American photographer Harry Callahan. The natural landscape
was a subject that occupied Callahan throughout his career, and
examples range in time from the early 1940s to the early 1990s,
providing an in-depth look at the artist's evolution. Callahan was
fascinated not by the wide, sweeping landscapes of photographers
like Ansel Adams but by more intimate pictures, which often remove
the context of earth and sky from the scene, creating abstractions
that challenge our notions of landscape by presenting a small slice
of the world in all its infinite detail.
Essay by Katherine Ware. Foreword by Anne d'Harnoncourt. |
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Paul
Caponigro, Masterworks from Forty Years,
Paul Caponigro
1993, Photography West Graphics
12.5" x 13.25", 140 pgs.,
List price: $176.47 |
Essay by
David Stroud - 61 plates
This is a
stunning volume of one of the greatest landscape photographers
in the history of the medium. This work "presents the first
chronological overview of Caponigro's photographic career in a
single beautifully bound monograph. Each photograph has been reproduced
to facsimile quality for this fine edition." |
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New
England Days,
Paul Caponigro
2002, David R. Godine
9.02" x 9.94", 79 pgs.
List price: $35.00 |
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In
a Desert Land: Photographs of Israel, Egypt, and Jordan,
Neil Folberg
1998, Abberville Press
12.29" x 9.29", 204 pp.
List price: $49.95 |
"In
this large, heavy, and luxurious book of color photographs of the
Near East, Folberg's focus is the natural beauty of the rugged landscape
rather than political turmoil. The images, splendidly seen and reproduced,
are grouped by region Egypt, Sinai, Jordan, and Israel with each
group accompanied by an interesting narrative by the photographer.
Annotations for the photographs, together with small black-and-white
reproductions, occupy a 30-page addendum. ..." - Copyright
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The
American Rockies,
Gus Foster
2002, University of New Mexico Press
7" x 12", 80 pp.
List price: $18.95
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"The
American Rockies presents an extraordinary visual diary of
Gus Foster’s Rocky Mountain odyssey with his panoramic camera.
Foster climbed the major peaks along the backbone of the continent
from the Canadian border to the border with Mexico, photographing
the spectacular landscape sometimes at greater than 360 degrees.
As James Enyeart writes in A Traveler’s Notebook: "A
lifetime of travel places Gus Foster in a succession of artists
who have gained insight and inspiration from the exotic and unfamiliar."
Foster’s panoramic photographs enable even the armchair traveler
to experience the enormous grandeur of the Rockies.
Essays included are by James Enyeart, Anne and John Marion Professor
of Photographic Arts and the Director of the Marion Center at the
College of Santa Fe; Alan Wallach, Ralph H. Wark Professor of Art
and Art History and Professor of American Studies at the College
of William and Mary; Roger Badash, Foster’s longtime climbing
companion; and Gus Foster. |
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Frederick
Law Olmsted Landscapes
Lee Friedlander
2008,
D.A.P.
13 x 12¾", 84
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List price: $85.00 |
A natural chronicler of all things uniquely American,
photographer Lee Friedlander here puts his lens to the work of Frederick
Law Olmsted (1822–1903), designer of many of this country’s
most iconic public landscapes and the father of North American landscape
architecture.
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Consuming
the American Landscape,
John Ganis
2003, Dewi Lewis Publishing
10" x 13", 160 pp.
List price: $50.00 |
Introduction
by Robert Sobieszek
"Using highly detailed color photographs, John Ganis has chronicled
the effects of development and extraction industries in every region
of the Continental United States over a period of seventeen years.
The subjects of Ganis’s images are for the most part flagrantly
clear—abandoned wrecks, desolate strip mines, clear-cut forests,
industrial parks, landfill sites, and the flattening of terrain
for housing -developments—and just as flagrantly disturbing.
This is a thesaurus of our "civilized" incursions into
the wildness of nature, a charting of our debris-strewn topographies,
and a cogent report on our abdication of any reverence -towards
the land. In an introductory essay, Robert -Sobieszek, from Los
Angeles County Museum, gives an insightful overview of the historical
responses to the American landscape and places the work of John
Ganis within the context of "the new American pastoral."
In 1989, Ganis entered into a collaborative exchange with the noted
anthropologist Dr. Stanley Diamond, who wrote the poetry for this
book in response to John Ganis’s photographs. They represent
some of his last and previously unpublished poetic work." |
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Poetics
of Place,
Lynn Geesaman
1999, Aperture
13" x 10.5", 78 pgs.
(used copies available) |
"Geesaman's
Poetics of Place contains some of the finest formal-garden
photography ever published--in monochrome, no less, which she developed
into vibrant, velvety visions of the ideal garden."
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Roaming,
Todd Hido
2004, Nazraeli Press
14" x 11", 56 pp
List price: $65.00
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The work in Roaming appears arrestingly
different than that in Todd Hido’s previous two monographs.
It is as if, having spent so many nights outside the eerie, brightly
lit suburban tract homes featured in House Hunting and
Outskirts, he has suddenly put his foot on the gas pedal
and driven into the next day. But these landscapes continue Hido’s
mastery in portraying the most mundane scenes with a menacing air
of expectancy. These unpeopled pictures, often taken through a car
windshield, are so effective in creating tension they might almost
have been staged. But in fact they are taken “as seen”;
the telegraph poles, the straggling tree, the road leading nowhere
are all exactly as encountered by Hido as he drove through Eastern
Washington State, the California Central Valley, Indiana, South
Louisiana and beyond. - publisher |
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Landscape:
The World's Top Photographers,
Terry Hope
2003, Rotovision
10" x 10", 176 pp.
List price: $35.00 |
"A
'must-have' for amateurs and professionals alike, this elegant
collection brings together, for the first time, the most impressive
landscape shots by the world's most acclaimed professionals.
Featuring
the work of such luminaries as Charlie Waite, Galen Rowell, Michael
Busselle, and other top photographers, The World's Top Photographers:
Landscape reveals the stories behind some of their favourite
images. With anecdotes, tips and technical details, this book
gives a fascinating insight into the creative processes behind
the world's most stunning landscape photographs. There is also
a brief biography of each photographer, including a bibliography
of their published work." |
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Colorado,
1870 - 2000
William Henry Jackson, John Fielder
1999, Westcliffe Publications
12.30" x 16.40", 224 pgs.
List price: $95.00 |
"The
images of early west photographer William Henry Jackson capture
a Colorado landscape both pristine and already dramatically affected
by the onslaught on western civilization. Standing exactly where
Jackson stood, and pointing his own camera in precisely the same
direction, John Fielder has rephotographed Jackson's Colorado
images to capture the often startling change that has occurred
over the last century. The result is both breathtaking and stark,
hopeful and disquieting. Jackson's and Fielder's photography is
accompanied by thoughtful and provocative essays by respected
experts in the environmental field: Roderick Nash, America's foremost
wilderness historian and author of Wilderness and the American
Mind; Ed Marston, journalist and publisher of High Country News;
and Eric Paddock, Curator of Photography at the Colorado Historical
Society. John Fielder describes the profound experience of traveling
the state and seeing the landscape from Jackson's perspective,
and reflects upon changes of the last 130 years. ..." |
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William
Henry Jackson and the Transformation of the American Landscape,
Willam Henry Jackson
1988, Temple University Press
355 pgs.
(out of print, used copies available) |
"Acclaimed
in the nineteenth century as "the world’s most famous
landscape photographer," William Henry Jackson and his camera
presided over the mapping, bounding, and settling of the American
West and the larger American landscape. In this lavishly illustrated
study, Peter B. Hales investigates the conversion of America’s
landscape from myth to scenery and Jackson’s effect on this
cultural transformation. ...
William Henry
Jackson himself is rich material for an authoritative study. Not
simply a chronicler, he immersed himself and his photographs in
the processes of change that swept America from the 1840s until
the 1940s. Official photographer to the Hayden Survey of the American
West, early explorer of Yellowstone, and celebrant of the Colorado
Rockies, Jackson was instrumental in the mass-marketing of landscape
photography at the beginning of the twentieth century. Retired
in the 1920s, he was rediscovered by the American Scene enthusiasts
of the thirties, and found another career as painter of nostalgic
images of America’s Golden Age of frontier freedom." |
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Antarctica, Explorer Series
Vol. 1,
Pat and Rosemarie Keough
2003, Nahanni Productions
17.25" x 13.5", 336 pp.
List price: $3,000.00
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"Pat and Rosemarie Keough's Antarctic
photographs comprise one of the most stunning and diverse portfolios
ever assembled about this great white continent. The variety of
their imagery encompasses wildlife, landscapes, abstract patterns
in nature and touches of man from the 'heroic era' through the heyday
of whaling to the present." ... publisher
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Third Views, Second Sights,
Mark Klett
2004, Museum of New Mexico Press
11.5" x 8.75", 256 pp
List price: $60.00
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Interactive CD included
Third Views, Second Sights presents forty-three pairings
from the third survey, documenting two periods of geologic and
environmental changes while exploring changing human perceptions
of landscape.
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Full
Moon
Michael Light
1999, Knopf
11.68" x 11.73", 236 pgs.
List price: $50.00 |
The most thrilling
of all journeys--the missions of the Apollo astronauts to the surface
of the Moon and back--yielded 32,000 extraordinarily beautiful photographs,
the record of a unique human achievement. Until recently, only a
handful of these photographs had been released for publication;
but now, for the first time, NASA has allowed a selection of the
master negatives and transparencies to be scanned electronically,
rendering the sharpest images of space that we have ever seen. Michael
Light has woven 129 of these stunningly clear images into a single
composite voyage, a narrative of breathtaking immediacy and authenticity
that begins with the launch and is followed by a walk in space,
an orbit of the Moon, a lunar landing and exploration, and a return
to Earth with an orbit and splashdown.
Graced by five 45-inch-wide gatefolds that display the lunar
landscape, from above the surface and at eye level, in unprecedented
detail and clarity, Full Moon conveys on each page the
excitement, disorientation, and awe that the astronauts themselves
felt as they were shot into space and then as they explored an
alien landscape and looked back at their home planet from hundreds
of thousands of miles away.
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The
Lewis & Clark Trail,
Richard Mack
2005, Quiet Light Publishing
13" x 11", 256 pp |
Photographer Richard Mack has brought
the vistas and majesty of the Lewis & Clark Trail to life
in a magnificent set of 248 color photographs. Richard spent two
years visiting key locations along the Lewis & Clark Trail
– by plane, auto, and on foot – shooting specific
locations at the same time of year as was originally experienced.
The result is an extraordinary set of images capturing the incredible
diversity of the American landscape in different seasons. 248
color illustrations
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Magnum
Landscape,
from the Editors of Phaidon
2001, Phaidon Press
6.22" x 8.69", 184 pp.
List price: $19.95 |
"Landscape,
says Henri Peretz, is the photographic genre which above all others
"sets in competition the simple viewer, the painter, the amateur
and professional photographer." This book, which marks the
50th anniversary of the Magnum Photo Agency, collects images by
some of the most imaginative photographers of the century. Many
have the eye of great painters: Henri Cartier-Bresson's study of
picnickers on the bank of the River Marne is like a Renoir brought
to life, while Bruno Barbey's exquisite color image of soldiers
descending the hills of Kurdistan has the quality of an Albert Bierstadt
canvas. There are some wonderfully surreal visions here too, such
as Bruce Davidson's shot of the Statue of Liberty with a New Jersey
junkyard in the foreground, and Richard Kalvar's image of a naked
man on the Brooklyn Bridge." - Amazon.com editor |
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The
Lake Project,
David Maisel
2004, Nazraeli Press
14" x 14", 60 pp.
List price: $75.00
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Introduction by Robert Sobieszek
For more than two decades, David Maisel has photographed civilisation’s
aggressive advance across the American landscape. The sites he has
pursued, the subjects he has discovered, and the abstract beauty
he has confronted are all the more unfamiliar and disarming because
of their aerial perspectives. Looking down from low-flying aircraft
banking steeply over the terrain, Maisel constructs skewed landscapes
that seem at times to have no horizons, no up or down, no near or
far. The Lake Project documents Maisel’s work around
Owens Lake. This arid expanse, located just east of the Sierra Nevadas,
is for the most part a desiccated bed of mineral deposits. Drained
for the water needs of Southern California, it now contributes carcinogenic
particles to the atmosphere during “dust events.” These
are not normal landscapes; there is no foreground, middle ground,
or background but only the ground itself, teeming with malignant
colors. David Maisel lives and works in California. This oversized
book, superbly printed in color on matt Japanese art paper, is his
first monograph. - publisher - 34 color plates |
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Secrets du Pays d'Oche,
Olivier Mériel
2004, Nazraeli Press
12" x 11", 56 pp
List price: $50.00
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Introduction in English and French by Candace
Perich.
Olivier Mériel is passionate about Normandy, with its turbulent
climate, its ancient towns and fishing ports, and its farmland
dotted with cows and sheep. The son of a chemist, he lives and
works in the small seaside town of Saint Aubin-sur-Mer –
just as his ancestors did before him – making photographs
that perfectly capture the feeling of history this region is steeped
in. - 33 duotone plates
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Ray
K. Metzker: Landscapes,
Ray K. Metzker
2000, Aperture
12.55" x 12.13", 168 pgs.
List price: $60.00 |
Essay
by Evan H. Turner
One of the most inventive American photographers of the postwar
era, Ray K. Metzker has startled and delighted viewers with his
images. Ray K. Metzker: Landscapes is a journey through
the images that he has made in the last fifteen years. During
this period Metzker made many innovations and stretched the meaning
and importance of the term "landscape," using photographic
styles ranging from the traditional to the surreal.
Ray K.
Metzker: Landscapes incorporates twelve series of photographs,
including "Feste di Foglie," made in Tuscany; "Earthly
Delights," made in the eastern United States; work produced
in Turkey and southern France; and an extensive body of work from
Moab, Utah-many of these photographs previously unpublished. |
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Bay/Sky
Joel Meyerowitz
1993, Bulfinch
14" x 12"
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Since
1976, Meyerowitz has been photographing the same view of Cape Cod
Bay in Provincetown, Massachusetts. This collection presents 40
of these magnificent color photographs of the sea's horizon--the
culmination of 16 years of photographic exploration and observation.
40 color plates. |
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Extreme
Horticulture,
John Pfahl
2003, Frances Lincoln Limited
10" x 13", 144 pp.
List price: $50.00 |
Introduction
by Rebecca Solnit.
"Though the title of this book conjures
up images from ESPN 2, the truth is more befitting—two well-respected
figures in the photography world have teamed up to explore the
most exuberant of manicured lawns and gardens around the country.
John Pfahl has published several titles marked by a sense of wit
and whimsy. His award-winning Waterfall was preceded
by Permutation on the Picturesque; each of those
earlier titles share Pfahl's continuing penchant for carefully
describing place. Rebecca Solnit, who provides a scholarly introduction
here, is the author of last year's River of Shadows, Eadweard
Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, an enthralling
piece of writing." |
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Waterfall,
John Pfahl
2001, Nazraeli Press
5.25" x 9", 36 pp.
List price: $40.00 |
Introduction
by Deborah Tall
"This gorgeous new artists’ book comprises 23 color
photographs of North American waterfalls, a subject close to the
artist’s heart and one which he has documented over the
past two decades. Waterfall is an accordian-bound book,
printed in process color on matt art paper, hardbound and slipcased
in blue and natural cloth. Printed in a first edition of 1,000
copies, this is a welcome addition to the literature available
on both the artist and his subject.", publisher - 24
color plates. |
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The
Altered Landscape,
Peter E. Pool
1999, Nevada University Press
11.29" x 9.37", 168 pp.
List price: $49.95 |
"Over
the past decade, the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno has been assembling
a collection of works depicting a broad range of landscapes known
as The Altered Landscape: The Carol Franc Buck Collection.
This book is intended as an introduction to The Altered Landscape
Collection. But even more, it introduces readers to the specific
aesthetic objectives of the artists creating the photographs and
to the larger issues of humankind's attitudes toward and uses of
the land. Lavishly illustrated with reproductions of work from The
Altered Landscape Collection, this book is a breathtaking contribution
to the history of contemporary art. Far more than an "art"
book, The Altered Landscape is a provocative, richly intelligent
exploration of the attitudes and values within which art is made,
and of the ways by which artists, and ordinary people, respond to
the world around them." - 89 duotone, 38 color illustrations. |
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Landscape:
Photographs of Time and Place,
Ferdinand Protzman
2003, National Geographic
9.14" x 9.24", 168 pp
List price: $50.00 |
"Landscape
is a revelation for photographers and nature lovers alike—
a celebration of Earth’s incredible and diverse beauty, with
well over 100 images from around the world, coupled with illuminating
text on the evolution of landscape photography dating back to the
19th century.
Among the photographers included are landscape masters like Ansel
Adams and Alfred Stieglitz, side by side with contemporary photographers,
such as Richard Misrach, who has spent most of his career photographing
the American desert, and Sally Mann, who specializes in powerful
portraits of the American South. In his accompanying text, renowned
photography writer Ferdinand Protzman provides a history of landscape
in art, from the Renaissance to moon rocks. He explores the significance
of landscape photography as a background for art and popular culture.
Landscape also documents the enormous technological advances
in the field, and the implications for the future of this ever-popular
art form. In all, this is an indispensable and truly extraordinary
book that is as thought provoking as it is visually stunning." |
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Images
in the Heavens, Patterns on the Earth: The I Ching,
Janet Russek, David Scheinbaum
2004, Museum of New Mexico Press
8.25" x 11.5", 160 pp
List price: $39.95
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With Images in the Heavens, Patterns on the
Earth: The I Ching, renowned landscape photographers Janet
Russek and David Scheinbaum present their own personal interpretations
of the 64 hexagrams of the Chinese Oracle—offering an additional
metaphorical dimension in 64 duotone landscape portraits paired
with text from the I Ching.
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On
Fire
Larry Schwarm
2003, Duke University Press
10" x 10", 128 pp.
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"A startling,
mesmerizing series of photographs of prairie fires, On Fire
transports us from moments of almost apocalyptic splendor to the
stillness of near abstraction. For over a decade Kansas-based photographer
Larry Schwarm has been making extraordinary color photographs of
the dramatic prairie fires that sweep across the vast grasslands
of his native state each spring. Based on this stunning and extensive
body of work, Schwarm was chosen from over 500 submission as the
inaugural winner of the CDS/Honickman Foundation First Book Prize
in Photography. With publication of On Fire, Duke University
Press, in association with the Center for Documentary Studies and
The Honickman Foundation, launches this major biennial book prize
for American photographers. ..." |
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Landscape
and Figures,
Massimo Vitali
2004, Steidl
15.25" x 11.75", 300pp
List price: $90.00 |
Massimo Vitali’s large-scale color images
apply a topographical clarity and wealth of detail to the rites
and rituals of modern leisure. With this volume, he enlarges the
scope of his survey and includes beaches and discos from around
the world, plus a couple of ski resorts and swimming pools thrown
in for good fun. Simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar, his images
are of places we've been and people we've played with--but as if
seen from outside the body, from an unearthly vantage point. Some
combination of Vitali's experience working in film and the 12-to-15-foot
platform that he shoots from shifts his still images from documentary
realism towards the surreal. Combining the minute detail of view-camera
photography with a fascination for the fickle world of appearances,
Vitali's aesthetic and subject matter can be compared with the work
of the Becher school--but with Vitali, figure and environment cohabit
the space of the image, thus lessening the need for a metaphysical
reading. - publisher |
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Carleton
Watkins,
Douglas Nickel
1999, Harry N. Abrams
11.75" x 10.79", 228 pgs.
List price: $65.00
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"Acknowledged
as the foremost 19th-century American landscape photographer,
Watkins (1829-1916) produced visual images of an American West
that the Victorian populace had barely begun to imagine. Lugging
cumbersome equipment, he captured the majesty of Yosemite, the
Pacific Coast, the Columbia River, and other regions of the west
including frontier towns that sprang forth from the mining and
lumbering industries. In this companion to a touring exhibition,
curator Nickel provides an enlightening reassessment of Watkins's
remarkable artistry and the widespread popularity of his panoramic
and stereographic pictures. Featured here are 105 full-page tritone
plates (many of which have never been published before) whose
scenic splendors prompted a national effort for environmental
conservation. ..." - Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information,
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Carleton
E. Watkins: Photographs, 1861-1874,
Carleton Emmons Watkins
1989, Bedford Arts
219 pgs.
(used copies available) |
"This
monograph of mammoth-plate albumen prints covers the birth and
maturation of Watkins's landscape work during a 13-year period
in the "golden age" of American wet-plate landscape
photography. Included are images from his two Yosemite trips
(1861 and 1865-66), plus images of the Pacific Coast, Columbia
River, Oregon, and Utah, and of mines. With its excellent laser-enhanced
reproductions and 18 newly discovered images, this study expands
the coverage of Watkins's early work found in other books about
this tireless photographer, who toted 2000 pounds of baggage
and glass through the wilderness, saw much of his work destroyed
in the San Francisco earthquake, and died nearly blind and penniless
in a state hospital in 1916. This
majestic selection of 111 albumen prints, reproduced by laser
technology and including 18 never published before ..."
- Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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include: landscape photography, wildlife photography, nature photography,
and art photography. |
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Adams
Bechers
Bridges
Butler
Davis
Callahan
Caponigro
Folberg
Foster
Ganis
Geesman
Hido
Hope
Jackson
Keough
Klett
Light
Mack
Magnum
Maisel
Mériel
Metzker
Meyerwitz
Pfhal
Pool
Protzman
Russek
Schwarm
Vitali
Watkins
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