Eternal Landscape - Hardcover

Rh Value Publishing

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0517029081 ISBN 13: 9780517029084

Publisher: Random House Value Publishing, 1990

Synopsis

Sixty-three panoramic, full-color photographs, including ten foldouts, reveal the incomparable vistas of the American Southwest and the twelve national parks located there, among them White Sands, Grand Canyon, and Monument Valley

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From Publishers Weekly

These 63 full-color photographs by Schulthess, accompanied by a brief text by Widmer that provides geological and historical background, evoke the harsh, stark magnitude of the American Southwest. Deserts, rivers, dunes, gorges and mountains from the area's wilderness hold the eye not only by force of their scope but because the photographer perceives their depth of detail. The sandstone walls of Canyon de Chelly in Arizona reveal wrinkles by the acre in a subtle range of shades of brown from burnt to tawny. Rock formations in Arizona and Utah's Monument Valley rise plump and gnarled, seemingly from the middle of nowhere and infinitely varied. Swarming out into Arizona and Utah's Lake Powell, the scalloped edges of plateaux lie basking, in a mysterious hierarchy. Even the simple clarity of a cloud can be striking, in Schulthess's pictures. When such clarity is multiplied many times over, as in his three-foot foldout of the Grand Canyon, the result is distinctly illusionistic, and imagination must balk at reality. Though not all the photographs are arrestingsome are not sufficiently specific and become conventional and stageySchulthess's rotating aerial camera has in general lived up to the challenge of his subject.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0517029081
• ISBN 13: 9780517029084
• Binding: Hardcover