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Lasting Light: 125 Years of Grand Canyon Photography | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephen Trimble
Publisher: Northland
Category: Book
List Price: $40.00
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 114967
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 210
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 12 x 10.9 x 1.2
ISBN: 0873588940
Dewey Decimal Number: 979.13200222
EAN: 9780873588942
ASIN: 0873588940
Publication Date: June 25, 2006
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Product Description
One of the most photographed subjects on earth, Grand Canyon continues to inspire awe, admiration, and frustration for those who attempt to capture its majesty with a camera. Reaching back 125 years into the photographic record of the Canyon, this book artfully explores the experiences of the earliest photographers and today s most exceptional artists. Accomplished writer and Ansel Adams Award-winning photographer Stephen Trimble deftly navigates the stories of the Canyon s photographic history and takes us down the river and along the rim with the next generation of photographers and their photographs. Also included are twenty-one essays by the finest contemporary photographers recounting their experiences at Grand Canyon, along with fascinating details of changing equipment and a timeline of important moments in the Canyon s photographic record.
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 The finest Grand Canyon book at the lowest price.... February 15, 2007
David A. Marks (Paradise, CA United States)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book is so awesome, and of such high quality, that its Amazon price seems surreal...I have two copies and am ordering a third, for posterity or whatever.
Intensely beautiful photographic prints, at the very leading edge of Canyon photos....almost beyond description!
If you buy one copy of this book, you'll then want another for a gift, and another for your own collection.....etc.
off the charts superb stunning startling good heavens November 2, 2006
Brian Doyle (Portland, Oregon)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Yes, you would expect truly astounding photography here, and you get exactly that, in lots of different flavors too, but the stories are deft and revealing -- far more than in a book of photos alone of a place that you couldn't take a bad photo if you tried. Trimble himself is a master craftsman with the camera, but his service here is to gather some really remarkable work and voices into a tome that anyone who has gaped and prayed there will want to paw through before you get major brownie points for giving it to someone else. Terrific work.
 Not what I thought September 13, 2007
B. E. Newell (San Diego, CA)
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
I bought this as a present for my wife. We had just returned from a trip that included a visit to the Grand Canyon, and I wanted to get her a memento of the visit. This book sounded good, but was not the one that included the beautiful vistas that we wanted. There are some photos too dark to really discern why they are included. There are some photos of a boat on the bank of the river. That could be from anywhere.
Although I suppose others may find it interesting, we didn't want a book of prose, we just wanted amazing photos. This was not that book.
A superb choice as a Memorial Fund acquisition for any library system July 10, 2006
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Lasting Light: 125 Years Of Grand Canyon Photography by award-winning author and photographer Stephen Trimble is a visual celebration and documentation of the beauty and grandeur of one of the most photographed subjects on earth -- the Grand Canyon. Comprised of the best of 125 years of great photographs beginning with the pioneering glass plate negatives of the 19th century to the digital images of the 21st century, Lasting Light produces spectacular visuals enhanced with an accompanying text of fascinating details regarding the advances of photography, stories of various individual photographers, and the relationship between the photographers and the unique American icon that is the Grand Canyon. As a coffetable art book, Lasting Light is a simply wonderful contribution to any personal, academic, or community library photography reference collection and would make a superb choice as a Memorial Fund acquisition for any library system.
Review by Jennifer Owings Dewey, author/illustrator September 27, 2006
Jennifer O. Dewey
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Lasting Light is a treasure, a compilation of photographs taken of the Crand Ganyon over a broad stretch of time. The viewer/reader may gain a sense of history, passing from the old to the new. The book is an experience in images of the vast wonder of the Canyon and the smallest, most discreet detail. Because the text is direct and not-technical, anyone interested in what is grand and lit by extraordinary light, the Grand Canyon itself, will find this work a delight.
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