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Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River

Door Karen Halverson

Categorie	Fotografie (Kunst)
Boeknummer	#332106-AE6
Titel	Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River
Auteur	Halverson, Karen
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	University of California Press
Jaar van uitgave	2008
ISBN10	0520253469
ISBN13	9780520253469
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original black boards, dust jacket, oblong, circa 22x27cm, illustrated with numerous photographs.
Samenvatting	Downstream is an arresting vision of the Colorado River by renowned landscape photographer Karen Halverson. The Colorado, crucial to development in the West, is at once wilderness, natural resource, recreation area, and wasteland. In seventy large-format color photographs, Halverson captures the river's natural majesty as well as the strange and unexpected beauty of its altered state. The images take us on an intimate exploration of the Colorado's entire lengthfrom its rugged upstream canyons, to its dams and reservoirs, to where it disappears into the desert, entirely consumed. In an insightful, personal introduction to the photographs, Halverson tells how she explored the Coloradoaccessing it by car, on foot, and by raftwhile learning about its transformation into a complex water deliver... (Lees verder)y system. In a lyrical foreword, historian William Deverell sets the photographs in the illuminating context of Colorado River history and discovery. In both images and prose, the book gives an extraordinary view of the Colorado's great and enduring splendor and a clear-eyed look at the many ironies contained in its waters.
Pagina's	142
Conditie	Nieuw — Still shrink wrapped.
Prijs	€ 25,00

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