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Author : C. Zonca
Publisher : Nhp Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789187815393
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (153 download)
Download or read book Desert Portraits written by C. Zonca and published by Nhp Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of photographs taken in the Atacama desert of Chile and the Bolivian Altiplano.
Author : Ed Freeman
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811858236
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (582 download)
Download or read book Desert Realty written by Ed Freeman and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2007-06-07 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The California desert as you've never seen it beforeand never will. This is Desert Realty, a stunning collection of surreal photographs. Glorifying ordinary structures and subverting the conventions of traditional landscape photography through digital manipulation, Freeman gleefully guides us through a dreamscape of palm trees and lurid skies, bringing the desert and its humble architecture into focus. In the vanguard of acclaimed photographers using digital techniques to express their artistic vision, Freeman also includes concise explanations of how the photos were createdmaking Desert Realty a veritable primer on digital image manipulation and an inimitable addition to the history of Western landscape photography.
Author : Carly Lane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781760800253
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Desert River Sea written by Carly Lane and published by . This book was released on 2019-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desert River Sea: Portraits of the Kimberley is the highly anticipated culmination of the Art Gallery of WA's six-year Kimberley visual arts project, Desert River Sea: Kimberley Art Then and Now. This landmark exhibition showcasing the vibrant and contemporary creative talent of Kimberley artists opens with a cultural celebration on 9 February 2019. New works from six Kimberley art centres and three independent artists will be presented alongside a selection of legacy works from art centre collections. Together with works from AGWA's collection, the exhibition offers a rare experience of the land, artists and art of the Kimberley. To accompany the exhibition, UWA Publishing has produced a breathtaking book outlining and tracking the development of the project and using extraordinary artworks to close the circle of the six years of Kimberley work.
Author : Andy Willinger
Publisher : America Through Time
ISBN 13 : 9781634992374
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (923 download)
Download or read book Abandoned California written by Andy Willinger and published by America Through Time. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Southern California, settlers have long ventured into the Mojave Desert, seduced by its capacious horizons and fragile beauty, only to be abased by the intense heat, bone-dry terrain and maddening isolation. Industry, intent on extracting the land of its essence, set up operations, then walked away when there was nothing left worth taking. Civilization has always pushed into the frontier, and quite often the frontier pushes back. Areas like the forsaken homesteads of Wonder Valley and the abandoned mining operations of Joshua Tree seem simultaneously depleted yet majestically audacious in their quiet desolation, juxtaposed against the breathtaking landscapes of the desert. Abandoned California: The Mojave Desert is a collection of photographs and writings by Andy Willinger that capture the majesty of these forsaken buildings, vehicles and artifacts of the Mojave's once vibrant past. These sites have become meaningful, unintended statements - not only as vibrant, ephemeral artworks of minimal beauty, but as testament to the impact on nature by humanity. Undaunted, the Mojave Desert continues to brashly flaunt its skill in overcoming man's attempts to conquer it.
Author : Patricia Gober
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812205820
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Metropolitan Phoenix written by Patricia Gober and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inhabitants of Phoenix tend to think small but live big. They feel connected to individual neighborhoods and communities but drive farther to get to work, feel the effects of the regional heat island, and depend in part for their water on snow packs in Wyoming. In Metropolitan Phoenix, Patricia Gober explores the efforts to build a sustainable desert city in the face of environmental uncertainty, rapid growth, and increasing social diversity. Metropolitan Phoenix chronicles the burgeoning of this desert community, including the audacious decisions that created a metropolis of 3.6 million people in a harsh and demanding physical setting. From the prehistoric Hohokam, who constructed a thousand miles of irrigation canals, to the Euro-American farmers, who converted the dryland river valley into an agricultural paradise at the end of the nineteenth century, Gober stresses the sense of beginning again and building anew that has been deeply embedded in wave after wave of human migration to the region. In the early twentieth century, the so-called health seekers—asthmatics, arthritis and tuberculosis sufferers—arrived with the hope of leading more vigorous lives in the warm desert climate, while the postwar period drew veterans and their families to the region to work in emerging electronics and defense industries. Most recently, a new generation of elderly, seeking "active retirement," has settled into planned retirement communities on the perimeter of the city. Metropolitan Phoenix also tackles the future of the city. The passage of a recent transportation initiative, efforts to create a biotechnology incubator, and growing publicity about water shortages and school funding have placed Phoenix at a crossroads, forcing its citizens to grapple with the issues of social equity, environmental quality, and economic security. Gober argues that given Phoenix's dramatic population growth and enormous capacity for change, it can become a prototype for twenty-first-century urbanization, reconnecting with its desert setting and building a multifaceted sense of identity that encompasses the entire metropolitan community.
Author : George Steinmetz
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9781419705595
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Desert Air written by George Steinmetz and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hyper Arid is the first comprehensive photographic book on all of the world's extreme deserts (defined for the purposes of this book as those that receive no more than 4 inches of precipitation per year), the most remote and inhospitable places on earth. It is also a visual adventure story by one of the world's top expedition photographers who has spent the last 15 years on this epic body of work. The stunning and surreally beautiful photographs are enriched with stories from his adventures in the world's most difficult places: smuggling his aircraft into Libya, getting arrested for spying in Iran, crashing into a tree in Western China, and into the ocean off the coast of Mexico. The book is a comprehensive exploration of virtually every dune field and patch of barren ground that add up to the last great class of wilderness left on our planet. To visualize these remote places in a unique way, Steinmetz learned how to fly the world's lightest and slowest aircraft, a motorized paraglider. This experimental foot-launched aircraft consists of a backpack motor and a parachute-style wing that lets him fly low, and slow, to take pictures of places that have never been seen before. Together, these extraordinary places are like a disparate family of co-evolved landscapes, each similar, but uniquely beautiful"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Barbara Traub
Publisher : Immedium
ISBN 13 : 1597020265
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Desert to Dream written by Barbara Traub and published by Immedium. This book was released on 2011 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a photographic record of the annual event held in the Black Rock Desert in Northern Nevada, from its beginning as a performance art exhibit to its current status as a pop culture destination.
Author : Marilyn Cooper
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295985862
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (858 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Desert Photography written by Marilyn Cooper and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Desert Photography: The Other Side of Paradise emphasizes the artist's view of the desert in a selection of startling visual works. The differing viewpoints in these works by 26 American photographers provide a rich and deep experience and speak to the fragility of nature, to the sense of desolation, to the beauty of untouched land, to the ethereal quality of decaying structures, to the fleeting nature of perception, and to so many other ideas. The relationship between photography and reality is a particularly complex one. As viewers, there is often a basic expectation that we will see reality in a photograph. But that reality is actually formed by the vision of the photographer who may manipulate the viewpoint of the photograph or the techniques used to capture the image. In some cases, the artist may engage in elaborate manipulations of the subject matter itself.
Author : Renate Aller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781934435816
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Ocean, Desert written by Renate Aller and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aller captures the infinitely shifting colors and textures of water, sand and sky This new project by German-born photographer Renate Aller is an extension of the ongoing series and book Oceanscapes (2010). Aller has continued to make images of the ocean from a single vantage point--for which she is internationally known--but for the last several years, she has also photographed sand dunes in New Mexico and Colorado. She has now paired the resulting images in a fascinating new series that continues her investigation into the relationship between romanticism, memory and landscape in the context of our current sociopolitical awareness. There is both a visual and visceral relationship between the two bodies of work. The desert images also capture visitors to the dunes, who engage in beach activities far away from any large body of water. And while these parallel realities are from completely different locations, the simultaneous, multiple activities on the sloping sand hills appears as if layers of different people and activities were choreographed next to rolling waves of the sea. Aller's first combination of these images was in book form, for a mammoth handmade book that was 36 inches wide. The overwhelming success of that publication has inspired this new trade edition, which features the largest binding that can be mechanically bound, and includes an expanded selection of the work. Born in Germany, Renate Aller lives and works in New York. Ocean and Desert is her third monograph published with Radius Books, following Dicotyledon and the long-term project Oceanscapes-One View-Ten Years. Pieces from that series and other site-specific artworks are in the collections of corporate institutions, private collectors and museums, including the Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Yale University Art Gallery, Conneticut; the George Eastman House, Rochester; New Britain Museum of American Art; Hamburger Kunsthalle; and the Chazen Museum of Art, Madison.
Author : Leslie Ervin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780914224419
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (244 download)
Download or read book Postcards from Mecca written by Leslie Ervin and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susie Keef Smith was seeking escape from a troubled home life and the havoc of childhood polio when she took a job as postmaster in Mecca, on the edge of California's Salton Sea. She and her cousin Lula Mae Graves set out to photograph the last of the prospectors, burro packers and stage stops in the remote desert to the east. They traveled by burro, foot and Ford though sandy washes and roadless canyons, armed with a .38 revolver and a large format camera. While making postcards for the Post Office spinner rack, the women were remade in the wilderness and wound up creating an unparalleled portrait of one of the lesser-known deserts in the West. Susie Smith's photos were nearly lost to history when--upon her death--they were tossed out by a county estate administrator. A savvy archaeologist jumped into a dumpster and rescued many of the photos in this book. Postcards From Mecca presents portraits of a mysterious land along with the story of its heroic chroniclers, self-taught documentary photographers of the 1920s and '30s.
Author : Wilfred Thesiger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500974919
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (749 download)
Download or read book The Desert written by Wilfred Thesiger and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of these works - executed in the Sahara and in the deserts of Namibia, Libya, Australia and the American Southwest - have been specially commissioned for this volume."--Jacket.
Author : Henno Martin
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN 13 : 9780353358164
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (581 download)
Download or read book The Sheltering Desert written by Henno Martin and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-11-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Richard J. Meyer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135240051
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Official Portraits and Unofficial Counterportraits of At Risk" Students" written by Richard J. Meyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles fifth and sixth grade writers in a poor, culturally diverse, rural school in the southwest US coming into their voices, cultivating those voices, and using those voices in a variety of venues, beginning with the classroom community and spreading outward. The big ideas of official and unofficial portraits are presented, followed by data and facets of the theoretical construct of counterportraits in each chapter, as a response to official portraits.
Author : Luc Delahaye
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714843391
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (433 download)
Download or read book Winterreise written by Luc Delahaye and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a photographer and storyteller, travels in winter across the dark landscape of Russia and looks into the private face of the country's moral and social crisis.
Author : Bill Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780292791169
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Portraits from the Desert written by Bill Wright and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Big Bend is one of the last places left in America that's a long way from anywhere. Maybe that's why it draws such an eclectic range of people. Certainly it was Big Bend's unexplored remoteness that drew Bill Wright and three high school friends on an Easter break in 1950. Since that earliest visit, he has returned to Big Bend again and again, finding sustenance in its spare, desert landscapes and in friendships with the people who have found a home there. In this book, Wright combines deeply observed photographs with a beautifully written text to offer an intimate portrait of the people and the land of the Big Bend. Covering an almost-fifty-year span, his words and images capture both the timeless quality of the region and the changes that have followed in the wake of increasing tourism and human settlement. The heart of the book is Wright's portraits of the people who have added unique chapters to the Big Bend story. From artist Donald Judd, who found the perfect setting for his work in Marfa, to Terlingua and Lajitas residents who gladly forego urban amenities to the Mexican villagers who have offered him hospitality, Wright explores why so many people have developed an almost mythic attachment to the Big Bend.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Tancred written by and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Isabel Cutler
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mysteries of the Desert written by Isabel Cutler and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full-color photographs of the landscape and people of the Arabian desert, with selections of Arabic poetry.
