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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A moving landscape,
This review is from: Consuming the American Landscape (Hardcover)
The cover of this book has the perfect image to sum up the contents, a family are perched on a rock taking in the stunning aura of South Dakota's Badlands National Park yet behind them, at the top of a gully and going down is some sort of large metal tubing, what it's for doesn't really matter because it perfectly captures the book's contents: the hand of man on the American landscape.
What I thought was so fascinating about the book was the type of image John Ganis has captured, basically the ordinary everyday environmental impact of industry and commerce and not the pollution and devastation that other photographers have exposed, like David Hanson's amazing aerial work in Waste Land: Meditations an a Ravaged Landscape. Ganis has searched out construction sites, mines, housing subdivisions, junkyards, landfills, highway furniture stored in fields, plenty of logging and more. The eighty-five images are spot on and just super compositions, which says a lot because what Ganis photographs can't be moved around or changed for a better angle, this is the outdoors: take it or leave it. The book's production is first-class, landscape with the photos printed in 200dpi on quality paper, a short caption below each image. This revealing collection of images shows how the landscape is being changed day after day in the interests of the American dream. ***FOR AN INSIDE LOOK click 'customer images' under the cover. |
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Consuming the American Landscape by John Ganis (Hardcover - October 1, 2003)
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