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Ancient Trees - Portraits of Time (Hardcover)
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Ancient Trees - Portraits of Time (Hardcover)
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Captivating black-and-white photographs of the world's most
majestic ancient trees.
Beth Moon's fourteen-year quest to photograph ancient trees has
taken her across the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East,
and Africa. Some of her subjects grow in isolation, on remote
mountainsides, private estates, or nature preserves; others
maintain a proud, though often precarious, existence in the midst
of civilization. All, however, share a mysterious beauty perfected
by age and the power to connect us to a sense of time and nature
much greater than ourselves. It is this beauty, and this power,
that Moon captures in her remarkable photographs.
This handsome volume presents nearly seventy of Moon's finest tree
portraits as full-page duotone plates. The pictured trees include
the tangled, hollow-trunked yews--some more than a thousand years
old--that grow in English churchyards; the baobabs of Madagascar,
called "upside-down trees" because of the curious disproportion of
their giant trunks and modest branches; and the fantastical
dragon's-blood trees, red-sapped and umbrella-shaped, that grow
only on the island of Socotra, off the Horn of Africa.
Moon's narrative captions describe the natural and cultural history
of each individual tree, while Todd Forrest, vice president for
horticulture and living collections at The New York Botanical
Garden, provides a concise introduction to the biology and
preservation of ancient trees. An essay by the critic Steven Brown
defines Moon's unique place in a tradition of tree photography
extending from William Henry Fox Talbot to Sally Mann, and explores
the challenges and potential of the tree as a subject for art.
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