Ancient Trees: Portraits of Time

Beth Moon's fourteen-year quest to photograph ancient trees has taken her across the United States, Europe, Asia,...
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Ancient Trees: Portraits of Time by Moon, Beth

Ancient Trees: Portraits of Time

$113.13

Ancient Trees: Portraits of Time

$113.13
Author: Beth Moon
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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.



Author: Beth Moon
Publisher: Abbeville Press
Published: 09/09/2014
Pages: 104
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.75lbs
Size: 11.10h x 11.30w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780789211958


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 09/01/2014 pg. 23
Library Journal 11/15/2014 pg. 84

About the Author
Beth Moon, a photographer based in San Francisco, makes her exhibition prints exclusively with the platinum/palladium process, which affords the greatest possible permanence and tonal range. Moon's work has been published widely in magazines, and she is represented by galleries in the United States, Italy, Israel, Brazil, and Dubai.

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