The Book of Santa Barbara
Photographer Macduff Everton has just produced a ridiculously beautiful tome about an absurdly beautiful place... Everton's images of Santa Barbara crackle and smoke with the sort of suffused primal power that calls to mind the book of Genesis when the Yahweh commands, "Let there be light." Nick Welsh,Santa Barbara IndependentMacduff Everton updates travel photography in the same way that Ansel Adams updated 19th century photography of the West. He captures strange and eloquent moments in which time, and the world, seem to stand still. --Andy Grundberg New York Times photography critic