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Black Garden, second book in the trilogy, delves into the expansive geographical world known to the ancient Greeks in Turkey, Greece, Syria, Palestine, Israel, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Iraq, and Egypt. Black Garden moves into the mythological world of duality and opposites which are explored through the masculine/feminine and east/west divide. The book is divided in half with a double gatefold seascape bringing the thematic ideas into the physical construction of the book. Included in the 154 tritone photographs are nine panoramic images. The book is dedicated to the author's grandparents who took the trans-Atlantic immigrant journey in the early part of the last century to New York.
Black Garden Trilogy Notes: Though the trilogy was constructed step by step, added on book by book, there is a cohesive structure by using consecutive chapters 1-9, and consecutive plate numbers 1-314, throughout the three books. The three books span the time frame of almost 30 years, basically the time frame of Eskenazi's… Read More

Princeton University Press, 2017. Hardcover. New. A stunning portrait of the nocturnal moths of Central and South America by famed American photographer Emmet Gowin.
American photographer Emmet Gowin (b. 1941) is best known for his portraits of his wife, Edith, and their family, as well as for his images documenting the impact of human activity upon landscapes around the world. For the past fifteen years, he has been engaged in an equally profound project on a different scale, capturing the exquisite beauty of more than one thousand species of nocturnal moths in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, and Panama.
These stunning color portraits present the insects - many of which may never have been photographed as living specimens before, and some of which may not be seen again - arrayed in typologies of twenty-five per sheet. The moths are photographed alive, in natural positions and postures, and set against a variety of backgrounds taken from the natural world and images from art history.… Read More

A Japanese hare, winter white, dead in the snow. A traditional minka, thatched roof shedding summer rain. A silver-haired man gathering wood from the forest. In Otari - Pristine Peaks, Keiko Nomura documents life and ritual in mountainous far northwestern Japan. During a cycle of seasons around Otari Village, she photographs the landscape, the worship of spirits, hunting, cooking, growing food. In the tradition of the Tahiti paintings of Paul Gauguin, or Sabine: A Love Story by Jacob Aue Sobol, Nomura's pictures show not just a rural and remote place, and not just an exotic way of life, but a place and a way of life that for a time the artist has made their own.
"Nestled among the peaks of Japan's Northern Alps, small enclaves such as Otari village punctuate the foothills with faint signs of activity. Here villagers live with the flow of the seasons in the fertile, yet unforgiving foothills. It's been almost four years since my first visit to this mountain community, a place where snow can pile as… Read More