Oceano by David Ulrich
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Description A masterful series of photographs highlighting the fragile beauty of a highly threatened landscape.
Publisher Description
A masterful series of photographs highlighting the fragile beauty of a highly threatened landscape: the Oceano Dunes on the Central California Coast. Climate change is the great existential reality of our time. How we approach this crisis will affect life on Earth for all present and future generations. In spite of our collective ideals, irreversible damage to the environment is imminent and represents both an urgent local and global concern. Through photographs of an acutely endangered landscape, Oceano: An Elegy for the Earth explores the deep paradox between the devout, powerful presence of nature and environmental loss and damage. AUTHOR: David Ulrich is an active photographer and writer whose work has been published in numerous books and journals, including Aperture, MANOA, Parabola, and Sierra Club publications. Extending eighteen miles along Central California's famed coastline and divided into both a natural preserve and a state vehicular recreation area, the Oceano Dune complex has long fascinated photographers and artists such as Edward and Brett Weston and Ansel Adams. The ephemeral, ever-changing landscape here expresses a sublime order and reflects the many correlations between the land and the dynamics of human society. Using metaphors that inspire hope and explore impermanence and darkness contrasted with the purity of suffusing light, Ulrich's photographs have been likened to Mark Rothko's "silence and solitude" that express the resonance and subtle dimensions of consciousness. The coastal environment of the Oceano Dunes is tempered by multiple threats such as incessant motorized activity, the toxicity of surrounding industrial-scale agriculture, and the second-worst air quality in the nation. Thus, for the title and sequence of the images, the photographer employs the literary form of an elegy, an extended reflection and lamentation on Earth during the twenty first century. An elegy refers to a poetic reflection of sorrow and love, often for a transient, mortal entity. As Ulrich writes: "Sorrow and love for Earth, indeed. No better articulation exists for my regard for our dying planet and common mother." 16 colour and 73 b/w photographs
Author Biography
David Ulrich is an active photographer and writer whose work has been published in numerous books and journals, including Aperture, MANOA, Parabola, and Sierra Club publications. Ulrich's photographs have been exhibited internationally in more than seventy-five one-person and group exhibitions in museums, galleries, and universities. He is currently a professor and co-director of Pacific New Media Foundation in Honolulu, Hawai'i. Previously, he taught for Pacific New Media, University of Hawai'i Mnoa, was Professor and Chair of the Art Department at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, and for fifteen years served as Associate Professor and Chair of the Photography Department of the Art Institute of Boston (now Lesley University College of Art and Design). Ulrich is the author of The Mindful Photographer: Awake in the World with a Camera (Rocky Nook Press, 2022), Zen Camera: Creative Awakening with a Daily Practice in Photography (Watson Guptill/Random House, 2018), and The Widening Stream: The Seven Stages of Creativity (Atria Books/Beyond Words, 2002) and the co-author of Through Our Eyes: A Photographic View of Hong Kong by its Youth (The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation, 2006).
Details ISBN 1938086929 ISBN-13 9781938086922 Title Oceano Author David Ulrich Format Hardcover Year 2023 Pages 156 Publisher George F. Thompson GE_Item_ID:142762665; About Us
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