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Wyoming Grasslands - Photographs by Michael P. Berman and William S. Sutton (Hardcover)
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Wyoming Grasslands - Photographs by Michael P. Berman and William S. Sutton (Hardcover)
Series: The Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West
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Naturalist John James Audubon found the Great Plains and their
wildlife so riveting when he visited the region in 1834 that he
broke off a letter to his wife because he was too excited to write.
In the almost two hundred years since then, the Wyoming landscape,
deemed the ""Italy of America"" by landscape painter Albert
Bierstadt, has retained its glory if not its place in the
imagination of the American public. This book reminds us of the
remarkable bounty contained in the wild beauty and rich history of
the Wyoming grasslands - even as these riches are under threat from
both human and natural forces. This landscape is now captured in
all its spectacular diversity in the photography of Michael P.
Berman and William S. Sutton, two of the modern American West's
most accomplished and well-known landscape photographers. Essays by
Frank H. Goodyear, Jr., and Charles R. Preston provide a contextual
framework for the images. Goodyear introduces us to the imagery of
the American West and explains the place of Berman's and Sutton's
work within that tradition, and Preston focuses on the natural
history of the grasslands, illuminating the area's ecological
diversity and changes through the seasons and over the years. In
2012 Berman and Sutton launched their massive Wyoming Grasslands
Photographic Project, a partnership between The Nature Conservancy,
Wyoming Chapter, and the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Working
in the tradition of late-nineteenth-century explorers and
photographers of the American West, Berman and Sutton shot more
than 50,000 digital photographs of Wyoming prairie, from the Red
Desert of southwestern Wyoming to the Thunder Basin National
Grassland of the state's northeastern corner. The best of their
extraordinarily sensitive, revealing, and powerful images appear in
these pages, documenting the sweep and the seasons of the Wyoming
landscape. In eloquent words and pictures, including a foreword by
environmental historian Dan Flores, Wyoming Grasslands offers
dramatic proof of how the land that inspired the likes of Audubon
and Bierstadt, while having altered over time, still holds and
demands our attention.
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