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Title: Alaska by Art Wolfe, Nick Jans ISBN: 1-57061-217-X Publisher: Sasquatch Books Pub. Date: January, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Alaska as Art
Comment: Whether this book of color photographs accurately shows what Alaska really looks like, I don't know, because I haven't been there yet. But having finished it, I'm planning my trip!
But I can say this is a great book of photographs of nature. Anyone who loves to look at photographs will love this book. Wolfe demonstrates that he is one of the greatest living outdoor photographers. His sense of light and composition is unexcelled. Almost every picture has a strong sense of line, either vertical, horizontal or diagonal. And the range of light is exceptional, often including in the same picture the darkest blacks and the brightest whites.
The handling of sky is as sublime as that of any of the 19th century American landscape painters. I'm certain that there must be plain blue skies in Alaska but every one of Wolfe's skies has clouds that are fleecy, or glowering, or mysterious. And the light that falls on the landscapes illuminates them with a strange beauty whether casting deep, hard-edged shadows that make a rugged peak look even more majestic; or soft shadows that fall across a brush-covered hillside and create a subtle modulation of green; or the red rays of the magic hours of dawn and dusk.
Occasionally his pictures take on a strange abstraction that requires a careful examination to discover what one is looking at, like the pictures of white ice floes on the surface of an inky-black river or the network of crevasses on a glacier with a few spots of emerald blue in the white field, where the snow has melted into a pond reflecting the sky.
Wolfe is a master of color field photography. Consider the brownish, grayish web of fine lines with several smears of white across it that resolves into a portrait of musk oxen with white horns and muzzles. Or the white arctic foxes in the snow with a bare hint of orange on their undersides. Or the receding green hillsides distinguished only by differing textures with a tiny browsing caribou in the foreground.
The text by Nick Jans is sometimes overly poetic and almost unnecessary given the photographs although explaining just what it is that makes tundra tundra has some interest. However when I turn the page to see just the top halves of the heads of two fierce little owls peeking at me with yellow eyes hidden amongst a row of wildflowers in the Arctic Wild Life Refuge, words disappear from my mind.
Most people agree that Alaska is one of the last great wildernesses and that we are unlikely to see anything more exciting in our lives. Art Wolfe has captured the excitement of Alaska. He has also captured the excitement of great photography.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Right Photographer For The Most Beautiful Place On Earth
Comment: WOW! Breathtaking photos of Alaska. He captures Alaska as it should be.
Rating: 5
Summary: A keepsake memoir of the state's natural beauty.
Comment: Art Wolfe's beautiful photos and Nick Jans' reader-friendly text blend in a beautiful coffee-table paperback edition of Alaska (1-57061-216-1, $29.95), featuring gorgeous full-page color photos of environments and animals and reflecting the contributors' familiarity with Alaska's many faces. Choose this as a keepsake memoir of the state's natural beauty.
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Title: Denali : Reflections of a Naturalist by Kennan Ward ISBN: 1559717165 Publisher: Creative Publishing International Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Alaska : Images of the Country by John McPhee ISBN: 0871562901 Publisher: Sierra Club Books Pub. Date: 12 June, 1982 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Alaska's Inside Passage by Kim Heacox ISBN: 1558683070 Publisher: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co. Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Pacific Northwest: Land of Light and Water by Art Wolfe, Brenda Peterson ISBN: 1570611505 Publisher: Sasquatch Books Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Edge of the Earth, Corner of the Sky by Art Wolfe, Art Davidson ISBN: 0967591821 Publisher: Wildlands Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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