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Salt Dreams

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I run into Jimmy and Dena occasionally in the West Desert. They do an excellent job evoking the strange solitude of Utah's West Desert and the Great Basin. This area seems to stimulate originality. The salt is remarkable in preserving history while at the same time destroying anything left unattended for long. A must-have photographic collection for desert lovers.

Beautifully presented and printed. The images are vivid, bold and very stark. The photographers really know how to isolate and present their subjects, and the large format photography really shines through. As a fan of good photo lighting i was a little distracted by the double-shadows in some of the images. Apart from this, technically all the photos are wonderful.

In "Salt Dreams" photographers Jimmy and Dena Katz have used large format technology to capture the strange clashes between people and what was once a vast naked desert. The images are produced in such clarity and detail they seem to insist on the discovery of a new reality, neither hyper- nor sur-real, but a pop-reality made of rocket and race-car dreams, and civilization's discards. These photos make both artistic and conceptual statements in brilliant color and fantastic precision. No more fuzzy roanticism; this is how we really are.

"Salt Dreams" by Jimmy and Dena Katz will mesmerize you. In unique large format color photographs this inspired artist couple captured the other-worldliness of Utah's Salt Lake flats. Spending months of patient observation, they came upon scenes of such strangeness you may think they were contrived but they're not. And that's the real magic of this work. Buy the book and read the excellent introduction by Vicki Goldberg, photography editor of the NYTimes to appreciate the freshness and brilliance of this work. It's unlike any other professional photography you've ever seen.

This is a beautiful and interesting book. Having shared it with others I have found that everyone has a different opinion of the story the pictures tell, and all were impressed. I would reccomend this book highly to all those interested in people being people in the desert.