Elfes peter (5 résultats)
- Couverture rigide
Vendeur : Barclay Books, York, WA, AustralieBarclay Books
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Hardback. Nov-13. For the last few years photographer Peter Elfes has been travelling to the Lake Eyre region, documenting the people, the landscape, the floods, the animals and wildlife. His spectacular images re-define landscape photography, taking it into the realm of art. Where others have only found an unchanging Australian… desert, Peter's lens reveals the spectrum of colours, the dramas and infinite changes which countless artists and writers have sought to explain. Accompanied by text by renowned author and critic, Peter Timms, this is Australia as you've never seen it before, a strange and intoxicating land which occasionally becomes a green desert. 2013, First edition, first printing. A fine copy in a fine d/w.
- Couverture rigide
- Édition originale
Vendeur : Archive, Sth Hobart, TAS, AustralieArchive
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Cloth. With Jacket. First Edition. Fine in a like jacket PP 239 illustrated throughout Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Peter Elfes (illustrateur).
Autres images- Couverture rigide
Vendeur : Andrew Isles Natural History Books, Prahran, VIC, AustralieAndrew Isles Natural History Books
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Oblong format,240 pp.,colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. For the last few years photographer Peter Elfes has been travelling to the Lake Eyre region, documenting the people, the landscape, the floods, the animals and wildlife. His spectacular images re-define landscape photography, taking it into the realm of art. Whe…re others have only found an unchanging Australian desert, Peter's lens reveals the spectrum of colours, the dramas and infinite changes which countless artists and writers have sought to explain. Accompanied by text by renowned author and critic, Peter Timms, this is Australia as you've never seen it before, a strange and intoxicating land which occasionally becomes a green desert.
Edité par ABC Books, Ultimo NSW,, 2013
Vendeur : lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australielamdha books
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EUR 20,70
EUR 22,78 expéditionExpédition depuis Australie vers Etats-UnisQuantité disponible : 1 disponible(s)
Oblong quarto hardcover; white papered boards with gilt lower board and spine titling; 236pp., colour illustrations. Very minor wear only; near fine in like dustwrapper. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. "What we call coffee-table books are often not intende…d for close reading or a lingering focus, but rather a glossing over with momentary oohs and aahs. The Green Desert is a clear exception. Peter Elfes' photography captures astonishing views of Australia's interior, beautifully complemented by Peter Timms' informative and complementary text. The paradox inherent in the book's title is intentional, reflecting the effect of the rare flooding of the Lake Eyre Basin (Kati Thanda) that produces burgeoning wildlife for a relatively short time. Elfes' pictures offer quite recognisable views one moment and beautifully abstract ones the next. The arresting cover shot is one striking example of the latter. That image folds out in four directions, so that it does the original justice - and this alone says something about the attention to quality of this volume. The basin normally takes up a sixth of Australia's land surface and, remarkably, it flooded in three successive years recently: 2009, 2010, and 2011. Timms refers to such events as producing 'a kind of mass longing' in the public consciousness, and it is that which The Green Desert taps into. After describing something of his own family's migrant photography business (and that, too, is interesting), Timms uses these flood years to frame successive individual chapters with Elfes' corresponding pictures. He explains how his interest was initially boosted by the late Paul Lockyer's ABC documentary of the basin in 2009. Readers may well recall both it and the matching book, Great Southern Land, which had a wider geographic focus than this volume. The final chapter addresses Timms' own growing and life-altering connection with the Adnyamathanha people, who are the traditional owners of the country. The text never overwhelms the pictures, nor vice versa. Both emphasise the relative insignificance of humankind in this environment, evoking a sense of spiritual wonder rather than pointlessness. You understand how one can lose the ability to situate oneself when there is no clear point of reference in the landscape, how the place presents the idea of the unframeable just as it is being photographed. Elfes says that he had to confront the notion that the lake was 'a much more complicated place' than he had expected. He says that 'one of Australia's great attractions is that there are still vast spaces to get lost in', and that we carry a great responsibility to care for it." Steve Evand In Daily.
Edité par ABC Books, Ultimo NSW,, 2013
Vendeur : lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australielamdha books
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EUR 27,60
EUR 22,78 expéditionExpédition depuis Australie vers Etats-UnisQuantité disponible : 1 disponible(s)
Oblong quarto hardcover; white papered boards with gilt lower board and spine titling; 236pp., colour illustrations. Inscription in ink to the owner from the author. Five photographic postcard prints of the book laid in. Very minor wear only; mild rubbing to board edges and corners and faint spotting to upper text block edge; ne…ar fine in like dustwrapper. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. "What we call coffee-table books are often not intended for close reading or a lingering focus, but rather a glossing over with momentary oohs and aahs. The Green Desert is a clear exception. Peter Elfes' photography captures astonishing views of Australia's interior, beautifully complemented by Peter Timms' informative and complementary text. The paradox inherent in the book's title is intentional, reflecting the effect of the rare flooding of the Lake Eyre Basin (Kati Thanda) that produces burgeoning wildlife for a relatively short time. Elfes' pictures offer quite recognisable views one moment and beautifully abstract ones the next. The arresting cover shot is one striking example of the latter. That image folds out in four directions, so that it does the original justice - and this alone says something about the attention to quality of this volume. The basin normally takes up a sixth of Australia's land surface and, remarkably, it flooded in three successive years recently: 2009, 2010, and 2011. Timms refers to such events as producing 'a kind of mass longing' in the public consciousness, and it is that which The Green Desert taps into. After describing something of his own family's migrant photography business (and that, too, is interesting), Timms uses these flood years to frame successive individual chapters with Elfes' corresponding pictures. He explains how his interest was initially boosted by the late Paul Lockyer's ABC documentary of the basin in 2009. Readers may well recall both it and the matching book, Great Southern Land, which had a wider geographic focus than this volume. The final chapter addresses Timms' own growing and life-altering connection with the Adnyamathanha people, who are the traditional owners of the country. The text never overwhelms the pictures, nor vice versa. Both emphasise the relative insignificance of humankind in this environment, evoking a sense of spiritual wonder rather than pointlessness. You understand how one can lose the ability to situate oneself when there is no clear point of reference in the landscape, how the place presents the idea of the unframeable just as it is being photographed. Elfes says that he had to confront the notion that the lake was 'a much more complicated place' than he had expected. He says that 'one of Australia's great attractions is that there are still vast spaces to get lost in', and that we carry a great responsibility to care for it." Steve Evand In Daily.
