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Alaska visits Springfield in photos and artifacts
Illinois Times - Feb 25, 2010
His work is also in Regarding the Land: Robert Glenn Ketchum and the Legacy of Eliot Porter. North to Alaska continues through March 28. ...

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In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World. From Henry David Thoreau. Selections & photographs by Eliot Porter. Introduction by Joseph Wood Krutch. (Sierra Club Exhibit-Format Series. 4.)

by: Eliot Porter, Henry David Thoureau

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From Henry David Thoreau: "In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World". Selections & Photographs By Eliot Porter

by: Henry David Thoreau Eliot Porter David Brower Joseph Wood Krutch

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In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World

by: Henry David Thoreau
This is a wonderful book pairing Thoreau's words with dozens of Eliot Porter's beautiful color photographs: the kind of book best perused in an overstuffed chair in a warm oak-paneled room, but which makes the reader feel such cozy comfort whatever the setting. Gazing into its expressive photos always prompts a twinge of guilt that I'm not out on a hike, camera in hand, taking pictures RIGHT NOW.

However, I can't recommend this edition. The 1962 first edition includes a lengthy note about the Sierra Club's (and Porter's) search high and low for a printer up to his demanding standards for his color photographs, and the result was rich bright color on glossy stock with deep but detailed shadows.
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Eliot Porter's Southwest

This book is full of gorgeous black-and-white photographs from all over the West in the 1940s. Central New Mexico is here--including the Canoncito Church near Santa Fe, Madrid, the La Bajada ruins, and the town and mines of Cerrillos--and so is White Sands, New Mexico, and southern Utah, and the mining towns of Colorado.
Many of the places photographed are in ruins, and the black-and-white coloration serves to make them even more desolate, dryer, dustier, bleaker. Sometimes the photos are of wide expanses; oftentimes they're of small details like where the rusted hook of an old door has carved a circle around it, from years of use once upon a time.
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