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FACES IN THE ROCKS
By Joel Simpson
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Description
If you are a landscape photographer seeking new ways to express your originality in a crowded field, this book will show you how to rise above the crowd.
The images themselves range among the perverse, ironic, grotesque, monstrous, prophetic, satirical, enchanted, mythological, pale-ontological, erotic, scientific, commercial, and cartoonish. The accompanying text provides an analytical and historical framework for what amounts to challenges to conventional landscapes.
Finally, the book squarely embraces photographic fiction: real rock formations (and dried mud) captured through a fish-eye lens and re-contextualized as imaginary heavenly bodies in fictitious outer space: asteroids and moons of made-up planets, plus "Anthropocene Ruins" of a fearsome future.
The how-to section at the end guides photographers to the best locations for finding subjects and illustrates the editing techniques that are critical to making powerful art works from rocks and ice.
In the back of the book are brief (color) photo essays on six of the author's favorite stalking grounds for the images in the book. Also included are a bibliography and site list.
Product details
Number of Pages:
198
Release Date:
2025-04-24
Publication Date:
2025-04-24
Publisher:
JSS Books LLC
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN13:
9798349312984
Weight:
1012 g
Height:
221 cm
Width:
286 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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