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| Edge of the Earth, Corner of the Sky | 
| Authors: Art Wolfe, Art Davidson
Publisher: Wildlands Press
Category: Book
List Price: $75.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 301377
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.2
Dimensions (in): 14 x 11.3 x 1
ISBN: 0967591821
Dewey Decimal Number: 778
EAN: 9780967591827
ASIN: 0967591821
Publication Date: August 8, 2003
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Product Description
Photographed on seven continents, and nine years in the making, this lush sequel to Art Wolfe's Light on the Land features 150 gorgeous and compelling color images exploring the extraordinary beauty of nature. "I really don't want to dazzle people with detail," Wolfe says "I want to move them by the moment." These "moments" come from the book's five geographic regions — Desert, Ocean, Mountain, Forest, and Polar — and will indeed captivate the reader with their clarity and range. Remarkable for its artistic vision, atmospheric presentation, and powerful but understated environmental message, the book includes an essay by Art Davidson with each section.
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Art's Images Blow You Away November 17, 2008
I hiked with Art in Patagonia when he shot the images in the Edge of the Earth, Corner of the Sky while I was researching my own new book, Classic Hikes of the World. Time and again, Art would rush to a spot and set up his camera. I looked where he was pointing but saw nothing unusual. When we returned to the US and I saw the pictures, I was shocked. Art has a unique ability to capture fleeting moments, or pick out the one element in a landscape that makes a strong composition infused with magical light. Each time I looked at the shots in this book, I'm glad I'm a writer.
Stunning, Mr. Wolfe November 3, 2008
"I have never seen a book with such a wide range of surprising
landscape images. As an example, check out the eclipse shot. Instead
of concentrating on the eclipse, Wolfe uses it as an almost secondary
feature, creating a surreal appreciation of the beauty and
strangeness of the event. I am reminded of what the guitarist Jeff
Beck said after hearing Jimi Hendrix in a London club. "What am I
going to do tomorrow? Get a job at the Post Office?""
Simply stunning July 14, 2007
Wolfe has managed to catch some of the Earth's most astounding and beautiful moments in clear, remarkable ways. With pictures of volcanoes exploding with nothing behind them but blackness and stars, and icebergs floating on the edge of gorgeous horizons, you really do feel as though you're on the very edge of the world.
Beauty and wildness are the two main themes of this book: eruptions of fire, crashing waves, and desert lands are all presented in beautiful and larger than life format. I honestly never knew that a volcano or iceberg could be strikingly beautiful until I read this book! I can't imagine how Wolfe caught these images. Although this book is not religious by theme, I don't know how anyone could come away from it unconvinced that there's a God, for surely only an infinetly majestic being could create such huge majesty. Read this book, and find yourself on the edge of an incredible world that you probably never realized you lived in.
Surreal Landscapes in Motion, Moving Conservation Essays, and Fine Descriptions of Photographic Methods May 20, 2007
Anyone who cares about wild places will find Edge of the Earth, Corner of the Sky to be a tremendously moving testament to our need to preserve the places that provide us with our sense of wonder. The photography will bring most people to this book, but the essays by Art Davidson about how our wild places are in jeopardy will stay just as vividly in your mind. Robert Redford and John Adams provide excellent forewords to set the stage for this remarkable work. Whether or not you know how to take landscape photographs, the section describing Art Wolfe's most unusual works will fascinate you.
The volume is divided into five wild landscape subjects: desert, ocean, mountain, forest, and polar. Now, if you are like me, you might think that desert is a strange choice. How can that be very interesting? Actually, the brilliance of the photographic work will astonish you. Mr. Wolfe unveils stunning montages of vivid color and shimmering shadows. In a few instances, he selects angles that reveal one or two trees in the foreground that are totally dominated by sand dunes in the background. It's like traveling to Herbert's Dune, although the scenes are from Namibia here on Earth.
Surprisingly, ocean is probably the least interesting subject among the five although no one will be yawning at these wonderful images. Mountain images provide a delightful combination of the familiar (Mount Everest and the Matterhorn) and the intriguing unfamiliar (Mount Fitzroy in Argentina and Los Penitentes in Chile). All of the polar scenes are eerie in their beauty and desolation.
Many books of landscape photography rely on the grandeur of nature's normal expression. Mr. Wolfe is far more artful in his compositions than that. Like Ansel Adams, the moon may be setting at just the right spot in the sky to provide extra drama. Using the light that may also exist for a few seconds on any day near sunrise or sunset, vivid colors streak across land, sky, and water. In one case, the illumination is from a brief solar eclipse. Mr. Wolfe is a man of great patience to create such unusual works. You could travel to all of these places for twenty years, and miss ever scene that Mr. Wolfe captured.
If you know anyone who cares about wild places, you would have a hard time finding a better gift than this one. And get a copy for yourself.
Find a way to keep the wild the way it is.
Bravo!
Photography for Conservation February 19, 2007
I really enjoyed this collection of still lives from the borderlines of space and time, light and structure.
Art Wolfe captures precious fleeting moments in its photographs, and makes you see things as you never did before. He shows the inherent and often overlooked beauty of lifeless landscapes; human beings, animals, and nearly all plants are excluded. The books five materials, sand, water, rock, trees/cacti, ice - and I may add a sixth: skies - are portrayed with such mastery, that you can feel their texture, and experience all their colors and shapes.
Art Davidson's texts are a perfect match, because they emphasize the photographer's statement that earth's integrity has to be conserved for the worth to humankind.
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