America. Located about 150 miles (241 kilometers) west of Las Vegas
near the border of California and Nevada, it straddles an area of
about 3,000 square miles (770 square kilometers). A land of
extremes and contrasts, it includes Telescope Peak that towers over
the valley at 11,049 feet elevation (3,367 meters) and an oasis
that provides habitat for the endangered Devils Hole Pupfish
(Cyprinodon diabolis). Designated a national monument in 1933 and
expanded into a national park in 1994, its rugged yet otherworldly
beautiful landscape now attracts more than 1,000,000 visitors per
year. Attracted by the distinctive topography and light of Death
Valley, Stephen Strom, a renowned professor of astrophysics, began
regularly traveling there some thirty-five years ago. His acute eye
for abstract, almost pointillist compositions not only reveals the
patterns and effects of geologic forces over millennia, but it also
takes in the vast, colorful sweep of land and sky as well as the
land's myriad details-volcanic cinder cones and sand dunes, dry
lakes and salt pans, colorful badlands and canyons, and
pine-studded mountains-that give the area its distinctive and
varied character. Strom's photographs are complemented by Alison
Hawthorne Deming's original sequence of poems, written for this
book, that are as luminous and detailed as the images themselves.
And Rebecca A. Senf's perceptive essay situates Strom's work within
the canon of those photographers who have inspired and mentored
him, including Ansel Adams, Harry Callahan, Keith McElroy, Eliot
Porter, Frederic Sommer, and Max Yavno. Death Valley: Painted Light
is a book unlike any other about a landscape whose topographic
relief and sheer beauty are unforgettable.
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