Michael Lundgren
Subtitle: transfigurations
By: [essay by Rebecca Solnit].
Contributors: Solnit, Rebecca.
Publisher: Radius Books; Brand: Radius Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Santa Fe
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781934435106
Subjects: Lundgren, Michael; Landscape photography; Deserts -- Pictorial works
Genres: Pictorial works.
Other titles: Transfigurations
Description: "Historically, landscape photography was used as a means of documenting geographic and scientific exploration. Later it transitioned into a way to record nature and the spectacle of human progress. Rarely has it been employed more abstractly to convey an atavistic or ecstatic experience as it is in the new work of Michael Lundgren. This volume collects the Phoenix-based photographer's images of the Sonoran desert, which he has been shooting since 2003. Using the desert's constant flux to his advantage, Lundgren records the shifting effects of light and atmosphere to create stunning black-and-white images. These photographs express a lust for the primitive, and they reinvigorate the realm of landscape photography with notions of the sublime. This volume includes a text by Rebecca Solnit, as well as an afterword by scholar and professor William Jenkins."--Jacket.