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Title: New Suns Will Arise : From the Journals of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau, John Dugdale, Frank Crocitto ISBN: 0-7868-0539-0 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: SIGHT BEYOND THE PHYSICAL
Comment: It is obvious that the present day photographer, John Dugdale, has been greatly influenced by the 19th century Transcendentalist writer, Henry David Thoreau. In this superb book of Dugdale's photographs and selections from Thoreau's journals, it is as if the writings were done specifically for the images, not over 100 years previously.
Dugdale has, for many years, been one of my favorite photographers. He uses a process for printing his photographs called cyanotype which was invented during the time that Thoreau lived and worked. The wonderful elegance and simplicity of his subjects and images fits perfectly with Thoreau's philosophies of life. Dugdale, because of HIV, is 80% blind, but, somehow, uses what sight he has combined with a pure spirituality and sight beyond the physical to create images of rare beauty.
So, we see a single rose alongside these words of Thoreau: "Love is the burden of all Nature's odes..." A still-life of flowers, two birds, which may be made of milk glass, and a human hand are viewed with Thoreau's "Perhaps what most moves us in winter is some reminiscence of far-off summer...;" a solitary man with one hand against an old, tall tree by a pond and a field are perfect for Thoreau's "Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each..." And perhaps most moving of all, part of the back of a nude man is used with Thoreau's "My life was ecstasy. In youth, before I lost any of my senses, I can remember that I was all alive, and inhabited my body with inexpressible satisfaction..."
The book begins with two short, wonderfully written appreciations of the artists by Frank Crocitto.
This collection is magnificent beyond any contemporary words. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
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Title: Walking With Henry: Based on the Life and Works of Henry David Thoreau by Thomas Locker ISBN: 1555913555 Publisher: Fulcrum Pub Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Henry Climbs a Mountain by D.B. Johnson ISBN: 0618269029 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 22 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Life's Evening Hour by John Dugdale, Shields Remine ISBN: 0967248426 Publisher: August Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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