A collection of Bruce Weber’s landscape and figure study photographs of the Adirondack Lakes region of New York State.
Gardens in Central Europe
This text documents the rich tradition of garden design in Germany (East), Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Western Rumania Colour photographs provide overviews and details of each garden’s features. As the gateway between Europe and the Orient, the diverse influences on Central Europe’s gardens are comprehensively explored. As political changes focus world attention on the culture of Central Europe, “Gardens in Central Europe” presents an opportunity to explore the exotic gardens of the region. The gardens and gardening traditions, with sources both in Europe and in the Orient The book explores the variety of gardens that have developed over the centuries under the cultural influences of the Ottoman Empire, the Italian Renaissance, the French Baroque and English Naturalism. A wide selection of Central European gardens is discussed and explored: the great royal gardens, the smaller monastic gardens and the urban town-house examples. The book is divided into chapters according to countries and regions and includes gardens such as Sans Souci, Prague Castle, Esterhaza, Brancusi sculpture garden and Trsteno Park. Each chapter begins with an introduction describing the cultural history of that country’s garden design, detailing climatic conditions, flora and plants imported to complement local characteristics. A detailed description of selected gardens follows accompanied by specially commissioned photographs which provide details of the gardens’ special features.
Michael Lundgren: Transfigurations
Historically, landscape photography was used as a means of documenting geographic and scientific exploration. Later it transitioned into a way to record nature and the spectacle of human progress. Rarely has it been employed more abstractly to convey an atavistic or ecstatic experience as it is in the new work of Michael Lundgren. This volume collects the Phoenix-based photographer’s images of the Sonoran desert, which he has been shooting since 2003. Using the desert’s constant flux to his advantage, Lundgren records the shifting effects of light and atmosphere to create stunning black-and-white images. These photographs express a lust for the primitive, and they reinvigorate the realm of landscape photography with notions of the sublime. Lundgren elaborates in his statement, “The landscape is only discernible because of the presence of what is fundamentally absent. Myth and metaphor remain unfixed, open.” This volume includes a text by the acclaimed critic, historian and best-selling author, Rebecca Solnit, as well as an afterword by the noted scholar and professor William Jenkins, who curated the influential 1975 New Topographics exhibition.
