Trees: National Champions (MIT Press)
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (979 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262025922 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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Eloquent essays complement the stark beauty of Bosworth's photographic paean honoring individual trees' triumph over onslaughts of time and the environment. Carol HaggasCopyright © American Library Association. Bosworth's dramatic, panoramic black-and-white photographs simultaneously document our country's evolving landscape and capture the dignity, tenacity, and singular nobility of gnarled yet graceful giants. to visit individual specimens officially designated as the largest of their species by the National Register of Big Trees. From Booklist Recognizing that few plant forms inspire human emotions as viscerally as venerable old trees, Bosworth journeyed throughout t
She is on the faculty at Massachusetts College of Art.John R. Nickel is Director of the Center for Creative Photography and Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Arizona, Tucson.. Roger Conover is a writer, curator, and Executive Editor of The MIT Press.Barbara Bosworth is a photographer whose work has been widely exhibited and collected. Stilgoe is Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape at Harvard University.Douglas R
Bosworth's 70 photographs of champion trees are not only a collection of tree portraits but the story of an American adventure as well.A copublication with the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson.. She has traveled down highways and up back roads, walked through forests and across clear-cut land, sometimes led by local tree enthusiasts, sometimes alone, to photograph trees that are remarkable not only for their size but for their endurance.Bosworth finds champion trees in backyards, fields, and forests, near roadways, power lines, and sidewalks. The western red cedar stands alone in the middle of a clear-cut, saved from logging only because it is recorded in the Register as the biggest of its kind. Some
"Very disappointed!" according to S. Bowman. My husband and I have seen many National and State Champion Trees. This book does not even begin to do them justice! I have seen better photos on a calendar! Also, all the photos are black and white, and may be artistically worthy, but certainly do not give you any sense of the trees magnificence.. Beautiful photographs! Keenan Brock I also want to add that the reviewer who gave this book one star really seems to miss the point. If you do want full-color "calendar" photos, then, yes, this book is not for you. But if you want insightful, subtly beautiful and out of the ordinary images, take a look at "Trees: National Champions."Bosworth's photographs are always thoughtful and often surprising--some of the "national champions" are not majestic at all, at least not as towering giants. Instead, they . AMAZING Images - BOSWORTH is Truly Gifted! With all due respect, S. Bowman's (Very disappointed!, September 27, 2005) review of this volume must be the product of an extraordinarily tiny brain, enormously inadequate eyesight or both! Perhaps Mr. and Mrs. Bowman should consider exploring visual and literary experiences that are better matched to their obviously limited capabilities - The Hallmark Store!Bosworth captures the ineffable grace and dignity of trees with clarity and directness: the green ash that sh