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Tide Lines - A Photographic Record of Louisiana's Disappearing Coast (Hardcover)
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Tide Lines - A Photographic Record of Louisiana's Disappearing Coast (Hardcover)
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In Tide Lines: A Photographic Record of Louisiana's Disappearing
Coast, Ben Depp's photographs capture the beauty, complexity, and
rapid destruction of south Louisiana. Once formed by sediment
deposited by the Mississippi River, the Louisiana coast is now
quickly eroding. Two thousand square miles of wetlands have
returned to open water over the past eighty years. Depp's
photographs communicate weather and seasonal changes-like the
shifting high-water line, color temperature, and softness of light.
A careful observer will notice coastal flora and distinguish living
cypress trees from those that have been killed by saltwater
intrusion, or see the patterns made by wave energy on barrier
island beaches and sediment carried through freshwater diversions
from the Mississippi River. With a powered paraglider, Depp flies
between ten and ten thousand feet above the ground. He spends hours
in the air, camera in hand, waiting for the brief moments when the
first rays of sunlight mix with cool predawn light and illuminate
forms in the grass, or when evening light sculpts fragments of
marsh and geometric patterns of human enterprise-canals, oil
platforms, pipelines, and roads. Featuring an introduction by
Monique Verdin and over fifty color images, Tide Lines is an
intense bird's-eye survey that depicts south Louisiana from an
unfamiliar perspective, prompting the viewer to reconsider the
value of this vanishing, otherworldly landscape.
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