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EVERGLADES, home to staggering numbers of plants and animals, is to wetlands what Kilimanjaro is to mountains, the Amazon to rivers, or the Grand Canyon to cracks in the Earth. Like these iconic places, the Everglades is singular and sublime. Nothing remotely matches it. Once a continuous sheet of water covering the southern half of the Florida peninsula, less than half the original Everglades survived development. Now diminished and relatively desiccated, the Everglades persists, in the vivid words of author William deBuys, as a kind of inundated Kansas of water, grass, and muck, ending in the dense mangrove forests that edge the sea. Mary Peck grew up in Florida, barely an hour away from the Everglades but separated from the wetlands by air conditioning and pavement. Revisiting South Florida as an adult, she saw the Everglades for the first time. Her photographs combine with deBuys s account of the natural and political history of the Everglades to underline the tension between awe at the power of our experience in wild places today and the knowledge that those very places are being lost.
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Mary Peck has been photographing landscapes in various parts of the world for over forty years. Her photographs are held in many collections, including the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; the Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal; the Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe; the Museum of Modern Art, New York City; the National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.; the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She is the principal author of Bhutan: Between Heaven and Earth (Merlin Press & Phoenix Art Museum, 2011), Away Out Over Everything: The Olympic Peninsula and the Elwha River (Stanford University Press, 2004 and Chaco Canyon: A Center and Its World (Museum of New Mexico Press, 1994). William deBuys is the author of eight books, most recently The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth s Rarest Creatures (2015) and the revised edition of Enchantment and Exploitation: The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range (2015). He lives and writes on a small farm in northern New Mexico.
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"This slender collection of black-and-white photographs --most presented as double-page spreads--and the accompanying commentary evoke both the grand mystery and the worrisome ecological decline of Florida's Everglades."
"Tasteful and affecting, the photos capture a diversity of cluttered, unkempt plant life that awes with quiet elegance."
"Readers will be moved by the cautionary narrative about the fragility of this natural
treasure."
- BookLife Publishers Weekly 2/13/17
Panoramic landscapes looking inland from the sea are the first few images in photographer Mary Peck s lush and luminous series of portraits of Florida s Everglades. The viewer heads from the ocean into a jungle of peat moss, towering cacti, cypresses, bromeliads, and marsh grasses. Here is the home of tree frogs, wigeons, alligators, crocodiles, panthers, and, according to Peck s introduction to a recently published catalog, at least forty-three kinds of mosquitos. Innumerable species inhabit the Everglades, the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States, but if they re in Peck s photographs and, no doubt, they are they are hidden from view by dense foliage or camouflaged and nearly indistinguishable from their surroundings. In , the emphasis is on the beauty and enigma of place. Before South Florida was developed, she writes, one continuous sheet of water covered the southern half of the Florida Peninsula. Less than half of what existed before development now remains as a protected national park. Everglades: Time s Discipline Peck s photo project began in the 1980s. The images are all black-and-white gelatin silver prints that reveal an alternately foreboding and alluring world of shimmering light and dark shadows. Peck takes her camera to some of the world s more exotic locales the temples of Greece, the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, or the Florida Everglades drawn to the endurance of mysteries that persist even when threatened by inevitable change. The orientation of the prints on exhibit at Phil Space is horizontal. They reveal not just close-ups of the Everglades flora but a chorus of details that fill the frame from one side to the other. , shot in 1991, is a beguiling image of squat but hulking forms rising from the swamp. The white flowers of (1986), one of the first images in the show, are an inviting but alien introduction to this prehistoric landscape. Most of us never see such places, where navigation is difficult and there are no roads. Author William deBuys wrote the catalog s accompanying essay, titled Everglades: The Beautiful Rebuke. Despite being threatened, this region thrums with life and persists on its own momentum. As still and quiet as Peck s images are, the reality is that the environment of the Everglades is a cacophony of sound, filled with the cries of birds and the buzz of insects. What Peck reveals is a world in a natural state, and it s a pity that this wilderness seems to be such a rare thing in our time. DeBuys lists some of the threats to this fragile ecosystem, including rising sea levels and the introduction of foreign predators, such as the Burmese python, which has affected the population levels of indigenous species. Peck is a darkroom photographer and was once an assistant to Laura Gilpin. Her own photographs achieve a certain richness, not just in terms of detail but in their depth of tone. Even in a world where the sunlight may only weakly penetrate through the foliage, light sparkles, glints, and illuminates the landscape. But Peck revels in the shadows, too, respectful of their secrets. --Santa Fe New Mexican 9/30/16
"Tasteful and affecting, the photos capture a diversity of cluttered, unkempt plant life that awes with quiet elegance."
"Readers will be moved by the cautionary narrative about the fragility of this natural
treasure."
- BookLife Publishers Weekly 2/13/17
Panoramic landscapes looking inland from the sea are the first few images in photographer Mary Peck s lush and luminous series of portraits of Florida s Everglades. The viewer heads from the ocean into a jungle of peat moss, towering cacti, cypresses, bromeliads, and marsh grasses. Here is the home of tree frogs, wigeons, alligators, crocodiles, panthers, and, according to Peck s introduction to a recently published catalog, at least forty-three kinds of mosquitos. Innumerable species inhabit the Everglades, the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States, but if they re in Peck s photographs and, no doubt, they are they are hidden from view by dense foliage or camouflaged and nearly indistinguishable from their surroundings. In , the emphasis is on the beauty and enigma of place. Before South Florida was developed, she writes, one continuous sheet of water covered the southern half of the Florida Peninsula. Less than half of what existed before development now remains as a protected national park. Everglades: Time s Discipline Peck s photo project began in the 1980s. The images are all black-and-white gelatin silver prints that reveal an alternately foreboding and alluring world of shimmering light and dark shadows. Peck takes her camera to some of the world s more exotic locales the temples of Greece, the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, or the Florida Everglades drawn to the endurance of mysteries that persist even when threatened by inevitable change. The orientation of the prints on exhibit at Phil Space is horizontal. They reveal not just close-ups of the Everglades flora but a chorus of details that fill the frame from one side to the other. , shot in 1991, is a beguiling image of squat but hulking forms rising from the swamp. The white flowers of (1986), one of the first images in the show, are an inviting but alien introduction to this prehistoric landscape. Most of us never see such places, where navigation is difficult and there are no roads. Author William deBuys wrote the catalog s accompanying essay, titled Everglades: The Beautiful Rebuke. Despite being threatened, this region thrums with life and persists on its own momentum. As still and quiet as Peck s images are, the reality is that the environment of the Everglades is a cacophony of sound, filled with the cries of birds and the buzz of insects. What Peck reveals is a world in a natural state, and it s a pity that this wilderness seems to be such a rare thing in our time. DeBuys lists some of the threats to this fragile ecosystem, including rising sea levels and the introduction of foreign predators, such as the Burmese python, which has affected the population levels of indigenous species. Peck is a darkroom photographer and was once an assistant to Laura Gilpin. Her own photographs achieve a certain richness, not just in terms of detail but in their depth of tone. Even in a world where the sunlight may only weakly penetrate through the foliage, light sparkles, glints, and illuminates the landscape. But Peck revels in the shadows, too, respectful of their secrets. --Santa Fe New Mexican 9/30/16
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- PublisherMerlin Press
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 0692691065
- ISBN 13 9780692691069
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages64
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