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SOUTH Images of America .. .bytheworld'sgreatestphotographers. Antebellum mansions with classic white columns. Contemporary skyscrapers with twenty-story atriums and fast elevators. Bustling city streets, and quiet back country roads. Millión dollár race horses, flamingos, and century old azaleas bursting forth with colorful blossoms. The long languid Mississippi river, and the sharp peaks of the Appalachian mountains. Walt Disney World and Colonial Williamsburg. New Orleans, Miami, Atlanta, Memphis - you'll find them all here. The American South - pictured in all its glory and diversity - is the subject of this first volume in the dramatic "Images of America" series. Produced by the intemationally acclaimed Image Bank photography agency, it is chock full of stunning four-color photographs taken by many of the world's most accomplished Professional photographers. An insightful and fact-filled introduction sets the scene, and each photograph is accompanied by carefully researched... Tovább

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SOUTH Images of America .. .bytheworld'sgreatestphotographers. Antebellum mansions with classic white columns. Contemporary skyscrapers with twenty-story atriums and fast elevators. Bustling city streets, and quiet back country roads. Millión dollár race horses, flamingos, and century old azaleas bursting forth with colorful blossoms. The long languid Mississippi river, and the sharp peaks of the Appalachian mountains. Walt Disney World and Colonial Williamsburg. New Orleans, Miami, Atlanta, Memphis - you'll find them all here. The American South - pictured in all its glory and diversity - is the subject of this first volume in the dramatic "Images of America" series. Produced by the intemationally acclaimed Image Bank photography agency, it is chock full of stunning four-color photographs taken by many of the world's most accomplished Professional photographers. An insightful and fact-filled introduction sets the scene, and each photograph is accompanied by carefully researched commentary.
Allow this book to lead you into realms where you have never been, or having been in, could not have seen this way. With the photographer as explorer and visual guide, his pictures reproduced with the most sophisticated technology our era has to offer, you will be taken into areas technology has never touched - the wild reaches of South Africa, into a dimension ofreality the naked eye can seldorn perceive. This is the nadir of ancient Africa. Embraced by two oceans, one dauntingly cold, the other soothingly warm, it is a segment of the world endowed with unmatchable diversity. Gerald Cubitt has captured itsfabric of contradictions, the fleetingly brief in the eternal, the exquisitely minute against the vast, the aridity alongside the lushness. Freezing perfect instants through his lens, he traverses eight widely differing regionsjocusing over the endless, undulating hills, or into the moist, astonished eyes of a baby baboon, or the sun-shot stamens of a desert flower. This is the real South Africa. Beyond humán strife and humán striving, beyond questions offustice and development, this is what will survive. ffiam Mi Vissza