American Portfolios [Hardcover]

Marc Muench (Author), David Muench (Author, Photographer)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1994

The plural title of AMERICAN PORTFOLIOS refers to three Muench portofolios: thirteen black-and-white photographs taken by David Muench between 1953 and 1978; seventy-five color photographs taken by David Muench between 1972 and 1993; and fifty color photographs taken by Marc Muench between 1988 and 1993. This book is at once the definitive career retrospective to date for David Muench and the promising career prospective for Marc Muench. The American states are represented with the following numbers of photographs: California, 40; Arizona, 21; Utah, 15; Alaska, 13; Oregon, 9; Colorado, 6; New Mexico and Tennessee, 4 each; North Carolina, Texas, and Wyoming, 3 each; Florida, Hawaii, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Washington, 2 each; and Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, and Virginia, 1 each.

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About the Author

DAVID MUENCH began his photographic career half-a-century ago shooting for Arizona Highways in the new style of near-far color landscape photography pioneered by his father, Josef Muench. In 2004, Muench was honored with the Photographic Society of America’s highest award, the Progress Award. MARC MUENCH is the son and colleague of David Muench.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 168 pages
• Publisher: Browntrout Publishers; First Edition, First Printing edition (October 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1563134411
• ISBN-13: 978-1563134418
• Product Dimensions: 12.4 x 12.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #893,084 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My First and Favorite Muench Portfolio, August 26, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: American Portfolios (Hardcover)

I'm not as critical as the gentleman in the last review. The only thing I notice about this outstanding portfolio is the striking beauty of the photos contained therein. It was truly wonderful to see David Muenchs' black and white photos. His color portfolio, however, is worth the price of the book alone. How he manages to capture these images on film is quite beyond me.

I was also thrilled to see the work of David's son, Marc. It is easy to feel his love of the outdoors by looking at his photos.

This book is a MUST-HAVE for every landscape/wilderness photographer!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Subpar volume of Muench photographs, December 4, 1997

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This review is from: American Portfolios (Hardcover)

David Muench is a Master photographer of the remnant natural landscape of this country. There are many who have imitated his approach and failed to see the way he does. Thus it is disappointing to see a book fail to live up to his usually high standards. The production of the book was sufficiently low to make me wonder if it was rushed to press.