Customer Reviews

Four Corners

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A beautiful book. One of only a few books of photographs that I keep going back to and finding new meanings - visually rich and emotionally layered. A new way of looking at a much photographed part of the world

This book sits on our living room table for all to view. Pieces of light, interiors of churches, spirit and spiritual mingle in time's subdued light. As the introduction points out, look at the photographs. Then enter into history, beauty and culture.

All I can say is thank you for these beautiful and spiritual images. I have given this book to many friends and all of them love it.

The images in this high quality book represent one of the best contributions to landscape photography since Ansel Adams and have the magic and beauty of Georgia O'Keefe's work when she was a native of New Mexico.

Four Corners is a book of magical imagery, spiritual sensibility and insightful storytelling.

Bloomfield's Four Corners is a timeless and sensitive evocation of the American Southwest. Also, an excellent holiday gift.

I saw this book last week during a bicycle trip in Santa Fe and Taos. The pictures and colors are spectacular. I would have bought it on the spot, but I knew I'd get a nice discount on Amazon. ;-) The book will have a prized spot on our coffee table.

Having spent time in the Southwest, I was so moved by Debra Bloomfield's book on the land and the churches in the Four Corners region. She has captured the soul of this amazing land with her painterly photographs.

DEBRA BLOOMFIELD, photographer for the acclaimed book "Four Corners", is the first-ever winner of a Wrangler Award in photography. The new category created by the Western Heritage Associations Wrangler Committee (formerly the Cowboy Hall of Fame) was acknowledged at a black-tie ceremony presentation at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum (http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/ ) in Oklahoma City on April 16, 2005. The Wranglers recognize the best in the west in the arts and literature, including western fiction, television, journalism, motion pictures and music. Former Wrangler winners include Louis Lamour, N. Scott Momaday, John Wayne, and Clint Eastwood.

Four Corners is the title of this collection of photos by Debra Bloomfield, who refers to herself as a landscape photographer. Four Corners is a well-know region of the country which includes an incredible number of stunning places to memorialize in landscape photos. I was disappointed to discover that 26 of the 67 color plates depicted iconic paintings and objects inside old New Mexican churches--that is almost 40% of the book has nothing to do with landscape, but rather with local culture.

The other great disappointment with the book is the very poor quality of reproduction. With the tools available today, this quality of printing is inexcuseable. The few photos that might have been truly interesting are so dark and muddy that their virtues go virtually unseen.

If you want to see the Four Corners of the title, look elsewhere.