About the Author:
Jan Staller has won numerous awards for his photography, and his images have appeared in the New York Times Magazine and several other leading publications. His first book, Frontier New york, was published in 1988, and was widely and enthusiastically reviewed. In addition to his photography, Staller devotes his time to the design and fabrication of furniture, lamps, and objects. He lives in New York City.
Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, and The Factory of Facts. He has written on photography for the New Republic and the New York Review of Books.
Review:
"Opening this book, I seemed to step through the door of a spacecraft onto the surface of a distant, ruined planet. Its landscape was haunted with the bizarre forms and inexplicable structures of an alien civilization-their meanings lost, their uses inscrutable.
Page after page I discovered puzzling and unaccountable vistas that should have felt familiar but didn't. Whether Jan Staller's camera has transformed these landscapes or transformed the viewer I'm not certain. But I do know that he gives us a chance to travel to the outskirts of our own world...as aliens." --Terry Gilliam, Filmmaker
"Bold and mysterious, [Staller's photographs] capture silent, poetic landscapes." --The New York Times
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