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Americas 100th Meridian: A Plains Journey (Plains Histories)
Monte Hartman
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Description for Americas 100th Meridian: A Plains Journey (Plains Histories)
Hardcover. Resulting from an arduous series of six journeys along the two-thousand-mile line that divides East from West, this title includes photographs that provide the intimate yet dispassionate observations of a person who chose to explore the meanings inherent in the great empty middle between our coasts. Series: Plains Histories Series. Num Pages: 113 pages, 113 photos, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 287 x 283 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1234.
There's no denying [Hartman's] abilities as a photographer. Shape, color, and light, he has an impeccable eye for composition, for juxtaposing line against line, drawing the viewer's eye into his subject...In North Dakota, he likes a flood-drenched plain in orange twilight, one stretch of barbed wire fence in a strong horizontal, another triangulating stretch (just the fence posts visible above the water) disappearing into the distance. In South Dakota, he gives us a flat plain with alternating gold, green, and brown strips of field, a dark storm building overhead...Accompanying the first third of Hartman's photos is a new essay by ... Read more
There's no denying [Hartman's] abilities as a photographer. Shape, color, and light, he has an impeccable eye for composition, for juxtaposing line against line, drawing the viewer's eye into his subject...In North Dakota, he likes a flood-drenched plain in orange twilight, one stretch of barbed wire fence in a strong horizontal, another triangulating stretch (just the fence posts visible above the water) disappearing into the distance. In South Dakota, he gives us a flat plain with alternating gold, green, and brown strips of field, a dark storm building overhead...Accompanying the first third of Hartman's photos is a new essay by ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Texas Tech University Press
Condition
New
Series
Plains Histories Series
Number of Pages
113
Place of Publication
Texas, United States
ISBN
9780896725614
SKU
V9780896725614
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Reviews for Americas 100th Meridian: A Plains Journey (Plains Histories)
Through his photographs, Hartman presents a nuanced study of the region...Hartman's images at times evoke 1930s Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographs, for example Cottonfield at Sunrise"" or ""Freshly Ploughed,"" but in rich, saturated colors, as if the FSA photographers had stepped into Oz. Hartman's images, however, range further and deeper, capturing those marvelous patterns that most of us miss as ... Read more