Eternal landscape

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Here, in all its timeless grandeur and fantastic colors, is the eternal landscape of the American Southwest:
• The inconceivable immensity and ever-changing light of the Grand Canyon.
• The Saharan expanse of the great sand dunes of Colorado and New Mexico.
• A magical "city" sculpted in the delicate limestone of Bryce Canyon.
• Arches and natural bridges of rock that invite us ever deeper into the windswept desert.
In sixty-three magnificent full-color photographs—including eighteen two-page spreads and ten foldouts, each of which opens to a three-foot span—these and many other glorious scenes are captured by Emil Schulthess. Among the equipment he used was the remote-control rotating camera that he has had specially designed for taking panoramic color photographs from a helicopter. He shows us, as we have never seen it before, the spectacular terrain of the "land of infinite surprises"—its countless gradations of light and weather, and the overwhelming sense of age and... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Here, in all its timeless grandeur and fantastic colors, is the eternal landscape of the American Southwest:
• The inconceivable immensity and ever-changing light of the Grand Canyon.
• The Saharan expanse of the great sand dunes of Colorado and New Mexico.
• A magical "city" sculpted in the delicate limestone of Bryce Canyon.
• Arches and natural bridges of rock that invite us ever deeper into the windswept desert.
In sixty-three magnificent full-color photographs—including eighteen two-page spreads and ten foldouts, each of which opens to a three-foot span—these and many other glorious scenes are captured by Emil Schulthess. Among the equipment he used was the remote-control rotating camera that he has had specially designed for taking panoramic color photographs from a helicopter. He shows us, as we have never seen it before, the spectacular terrain of the "land of infinite surprises"—its countless gradations of light and weather, and the overwhelming sense of age and power that the landscape exudes.
We soar above the gorges carved out by great rivers: the Grand Canyon of the Colorado; Zion, the valley of the Virgin River; and Canyon de Chelly, excavated by a river that has been at work for seventeen million years. We see the vast and colorful Painted Desert, the
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Petrified Forest, midnight-blue Lake Powell, and the Rainbow Bridge. And Emil Schulthess gives us an amazing view of Monument Valley, familiar to most of us as the scene of many a "horse opera" chase: now we see it in an entirely different mood, veiled in strange mists that seem to be snagged on bizarre rock formations, awash in dramatic rainstorms, illuminated by mysterious shafts of sunlight that here and there pierce the cloud cover.
Romantic, awesome, older than history: the incomparable vistas of the Southwest revealed by a master of landscape photography.
Emil Schulthess is a Swiss photographer whose images of Antarctica, the Amazon, Africa, China, the Soviet Union, and Switzerland have been widely published. His most recent book is Swiss Panorama. Mr. Schulthess lives in Zurich.
Sigmund Widmer is a historian and former Mayor of Zurich, Switzerland's largest city. The honorary title of Marshal, conferred on him in 1976 by the city of Tucson, testifies to his special attachment to Arizona. His text is a mark of gratitude to the country which paid him that honor.
With 63 full-color photographs Vissza