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Places in the Sand

Door Margaret Courtney-Clarke

Categorie
Fotografie (Kunst)
Boeknummer
#329346-AD15
Titel
Places in the Sand
Auteur
Courtney-Clarke, Margaret
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover
Uitgeverij
The Monacelli Press
Jaar van uitgave
1997
ISBN10
1885254768
ISBN13
9781885254764
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original square cloth with mounted plate, circa 23x23cm, illustrated with photographs.
Samenvatting
Traveling thousands of miles across vast deserts, Margaret Courtney-Clarke has photographed the remote and seldom-seen landscapes of Africa's magnificent and delicate environment, where nature wages an ongoing struggle to survive. Places in the Sand portrays unfolding dunes blown constantly by the wind, dreamlike roads that lead nowhere, the fragile cracked ground stretching endlessly toward the horizon.
Born and raised on a ranch at the edge of the Namib Desert, Courtney-Clarke's photographic work reflects an extraordinary blend of sophisticated European and ancient African cultures as well as an innate love for and instinctive understanding of the eternal beauty of the land.
In Places in the Sand, she turns a nostalgic and knowing eye to the landscape, creating evocative slivers of pan
... (Lees verder)oramas in which earth touches sky, poetic images of abandoned shacks engulfed by sand and time, and jewel-like shots framing textures, majestic colors, and forms.
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