America's 100th Meridian - A Plains Journey

Informationen zum Autor Monte Hartman has an M.A. in art from UCLA and forty years of experience in photography, design, and the arts. He lives with his wife in Hayward, California.William Kittredge, one of America's great Western writers, has authored many books, including Hole in the Sky and Who Owns the West? Klappentext Resulting from an arduous series of six journeys along the two-thousand-mile line that divides East from West, Monte Hartman's perceptive photographs provide the intimate yet dispassionate observations of a person who chose to explore the meanings inherent in the great "empty middle" between our coasts. These images inspired William Kittredge to travel the Meridian himself. His essay, an unblinking yet sensitive musing on what once was and what now remains, offers a poignant counterpoint to Hartman's visual tapestry. Zusammenfassung Resulting from an arduous series of six journeys along the two-thousand-mile line that divides East from West! this title includes photographs that provide the intimate yet dispassionate observations of a person who chose to explore the meanings inherent in the great empty middle between our coasts.

Product details

• Authors: Monte Hartman, William Kittredge, William/ Hartman Kittredge, John R. Wunder
• Assisted by: Monte Hartman (Photographs)
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2006
• EAN: 9780896725614
• ISBN: 978-0-89672-561-4
• No. of pages: 113
• Dimensions: 273 mm x 279 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Plains Histories; Plains Histories Series; Plains Histories; Plains Histories Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Travel > Travel guides > North and Central America