Earthforms Intimate Portraits of Our Planet : Geological Photography (U) - SKU 167042

Large format art book of geological photography. Includes unusual landscapes of both familiar and unfamiliar places, including Madagascar, Mongolia, Ireland Iceland, Sardinia, and Vietnam, Canada, and the US West, but also many small and medium-scale images of configurations from littoral reefs, dried mud, lava, mud pots, tafoni, an ice canyon, and rare cave formations that add up to a novel and diverse presentation, “intimate portraits,” of the earth’s surface, very different from familiar landscape photography. In color and black and white.Dedicated to the Water Protectors of Standing Rock, ND, the book contains essays by lead counsel Daniel Sheehan, who tells the real story of their confrontation with the Dakota Access Pipeline oil company (illustrated with on-the-scene photos by Stephanie Keith), and Lakota lawyer Chase Iron Eyes. Also features essays by photo critic and author Lyle Rexer, and British poet-playwright-popular science-writer John Farndon. With geological commentary on all the images by the author and a geological time-scale to situates them according to their origins in deep time.