Australian Colors

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For more than two years, photojournalist Bill Bachman explored Australia's outback, the half-forgotten expanses that exist in reality as well as myth, returning with thousands of pictures and volumes of notes. Distilled through a filter of reflection and memory, Australian Colors is the rich and varied essence that remains, a celebration of the open road, the topography of faces, and "that other ocean," the outback sky.
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outback, n. remote, sparsely Inhabited back country.
- THE MACQUARIE DICTIONARY
"outback" is of course an Australian word meaning back country. There is an implication of remoteness and sparse population, and, behind the word, an implication that very little — in the human sense - happens there, and that what does happen can be slow and undramatic. However, nothing could be farther from the truth."
The outback? It's still out there.The landscape and people of the interior, and the extraordinary sights of make-do, bush art and human whimsy... Tovább

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For more than two years, photojournalist Bill Bachman explored Australia's outback, the half-forgotten expanses that exist in reality as well as myth, returning with thousands of pictures and volumes of notes. Distilled through a filter of reflection and memory, Australian Colors is the rich and varied essence that remains, a celebration of the open road, the topography of faces, and "that other ocean," the outback sky.
iiiiriiAiiiKLi^
outback, n. remote, sparsely Inhabited back country.
- THE MACQUARIE DICTIONARY
"outback" is of course an Australian word meaning back country. There is an implication of remoteness and sparse population, and, behind the word, an implication that very little — in the human sense - happens there, and that what does happen can be slow and undramatic. However, nothing could be farther from the truth."
The outback? It's still out there.The landscape and people of the interior, and the extraordinary sights of make-do, bush art and human whimsy scattered across the Island Continent are still very much a part of the national consciousness.
For more than two years, photojournalist Bill Bachman explored the half-forgotten expanses that exist in reality as well as myth, returning with thousands of pictures and volumes of notes. Distilled through a filter of reflection and memory, Australian Colors is the rich and varied essence that remains.
Anchoring the many themes that make up the book are Bachman's photographs - starding, wry, lyrical, perplexing.The text he weaves around them is equally vital, blending fact with anecdote, history and humor.
Award-winning novelist Tim Winton adds his own perspective in a series of vignettes on subjects as diverse as the topography of faces, the special place of corrugated iron in Australian culture, and the bogus glamor of the stockman's life. He celebrates the open road, muses on the unwritten history of wayside junk, and marvels at "that other ocean," the outback sky.
Winton beholds the desert as a place of spirits, the continent itself as a vast exercise in abstraction, at once beautiful and terrible.The human denizens of inland Australia, he observes,"are spread so thinly that, like signposts, turnoffs, natural wonders, they become events in themselves." And as for dogs: "They run the country. I'm sure they sit on numerous shire councils.They are in every family portrait and civic frieze, on car roofs and bike seats."
Together, Bachman and Winton range far and wide, along the way mining rich veins of local color - without question a natural resource Australia possesses in great abundance. Vissza