No Ordinary Land: Encounters in a Changing Environment

Virginia Beahan; Laura McPhee

ISBN 10: 0893817333 / ISBN 13: 9780893817336

Published by Aperture Foundation, 1998

About this Item

Jacket has moderate general wear plus a couple of tiny tears. Light foxing to half-title page, otherwise internally very clean. Binding tight. 108pp Size: 305mm x 265mm.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: No Ordinary Land: Encounters in a Changing Environment
• Publisher: Aperture Foundation
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0893817333
• ISBN 13: 9780893817336
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography

About this title

Synopsis

For more than ten years Virginia Beahan and Laura McPhee have traveled the world--from Iceland to Costa Rica, Sri Lanka to New York --exploring the ways people interact with the landscapes in which they live. In Costa Rica, for example, healing waters are enshrined in frescoed concrete; in a Hawaiian garden, mangoes and oranges are protected against the cold in brown paper bag jackets; in Iceland, children play in hot springs created by the runoff of a power plant; in Las Vegas, an artificial volcano erupts on cue. Each of Beahan and McPhee's extraordinary images captures a point of collision between natural and constructed worlds.

In 1987, Laura McPhee and Virginia Beahan began their photographic work together using a large-format camera.

About the Authors

Virginia Beahan teaches at Bard College. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband. They have one daughter.

Laura McPhee teaches at the Massachusetts College of Art. She and her husband and daughter live in Boston.

Rebecca Solnit is contributing editor to Art Issues and Creative Camera.