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Title: Rainforest: Ancient Realm of the Pacific Northwest by Wade Davis, David Suzuki, Graham Osborne ISBN: 1-890132-79-9 Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company Pub. Date: June, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: capturing complexity
Comment: This is, quite simply, the best set of pictures of North America's west-coast maritime forests that I have come across. These forests are interesting, beautiful, and abundantly alive; they are also very hard to photograph. Through the lens they can seem messy and disordered. The unaided human eye screens out extraneous clutter, but the camera eye does not. There is order there, of course, but it is a chaotic sort of order, with many levels of order-within-disorder. Some photographers strive for excessively neat, tidy compositions, which give an entirely misleading impression of these forests; Graham, on the other hand, conveys the rhythms within the disorder. Many of the pictures are texture-rich without a sharp focus of interest. It is a style well suited to the subject. The text by Wade Davis, what there is of it, is good, but this is most definitely a picture book first.
Rating: 5
Summary: I spy with my 'large-format' eye...
Comment: This book is really special. Ok I am a mate of Graham's which some might see as a bias - but this book is oustanding none the less. Osborne is a biologist (infact a botanist) by trade I believe. It simply doens't matter though, because clearly what he does best is take photos. *Very* good photos. I don't mean as in 'Oh, thats a nice photo' as my mum would say to me when from four packets of snaps I produced one relatively balanced composition. I mean as in drop-that-frying pan, walk-into-that lampost, draw droppingly good photographs. This guy has had three or four calanders of his work produced for goodness sake. The book, which, ok I admit, he gave me, is always on my coffee table, and I must confess, I have chopped up the calendars and made them into nice framed pictures.
Reasons to buy it:
i) it will enhance your life ii) it will take your breath away iii) it is pretty reasonably priced
reasons not to buy it..
i) you hate temporate rainforests...
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Title: Shadows in the Sun : Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire by Wade Davis ISBN: 0767904028 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 12 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures by Wade Davis ISBN: 0792264746 Publisher: National Geographic Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW by Wade Davis ISBN: 0684839296 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 05 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: ONE RIVER by Wade Davis ISBN: 0684834960 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 05 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Where the Gods Reign: Plants and Peoples of the Colombian Amazon by Richard Evans Schultes ISBN: 0907791131 Publisher: Synergetic Press Pub. Date: June, 1990 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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