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| On This Earth: Photographs from East Africa | 
| Author: Nick Brandt
Creators: Alice Sebold, Jane Goodall
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Category: Book
List Price: $40.00
Buy New: $24.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 16358
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 132
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 12.2 x 10.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0811848655
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.3209676
EAN: 9780811848657
ASIN: 0811848655
Publication Date: October 31, 2005
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Product Description
Nick Brandt depicts the animals of East Africa with an intimacy and artistry unmatched by other photographers who choose wildlife as their subject. He creates these majestic sepia and blue-tone photos contrasting moments of quintessential stillness with bursts of dramatic action by engaging with these creatures on an exceptionally intimate level, without the customary use of a telephoto lens. Evocative of classical art, from dignified portraits to sweeping natural tableaux, Brandt's images artfully and simply capture animals in their natural states of being. With a foreword by Alice Sebold and an introduction by Jane Goodall, On This Earth is a gorgeous portfolio of some of the last wild animals and a heartfelt elegy to a vanishing world.
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Photographs with emotional impact October 20, 2008
Nick Brandt's book is simply put the most incredible collection of images I have viewed. They had such an emotional effect on me that I literally felt goosebumps! An amazing achievement - I only wish I could afford to have his prints covering my walls - Matt.
 just great August 5, 2008
This artist is just amazing, since I saw his exhibition, I never forgot the intensity of these original masterpiece. So why only 4 stars?? I don't know, the book is too small? The printing? it's never perfect but the photographs... The photographs ...
A wellspring of insipiration for the nature photographer (and nature lover) July 17, 2008
As an avid photographer - and one who has spent a lot of time shooting in EA - these are precisely the sort of images that make me want to grab my camera and rush back into the Serengeti. It's a well selected collection - perhaps not the greatest photographs I have ever seen, but a beautiful selection nontheless. A wonderful departure from the stock "post-card" photograpy that's been pouring out of the continent, and some are so breathtakingly vivid (like the image used on the cover) that you can almost feel the dust swirl around you, and feel the hot African sun on your neck.
It's a beautiful book. Would make an an ideal gift for the nature photographer, and for the nature lover...
On This Earth July 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful book with some great pictures of the African wildlife. The black and white photos were striking and the book appeals to 3 years of age to 65. It captured the African wildlife that I have had the privilege of seeing first hand on two occasions.
Amazing BW pictures. Very nice March 31, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Amazing BW pictures. Very nice and a good edition. Very interesting for all photo-africa lovers....
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