Open Air: The American West / Végtelen Tér: Az Amerikai Nyugat (Hungarian and English Edition) - Hardcover
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Text: Hungarian, English
Introduction: English
Introduction: English
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- PublisherHerald Agency
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 9630435241
- ISBN 13 9789630435246
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages99
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Open Air: The American West / V?gtelen T?r: Az Amerikai Nyugat (Hungarian and English Edition)
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(1993)
ISBN 10: 9630435241
ISBN 13: 9789630435246
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Herald, 1993. Hard cover, 99 pp. In very good condition/ NO dust jacket. Text in English and Hungarian. Glossy pictorial paper over boards have light bumping to edges and corners. Light overall scuffing to covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. Color photography throughout. [From introduction] The American West is more than geography: it is metaphor and myth as well as place, a landscape of spirit as well as rock and water. "Going west" means going to open spaces of imagination and freedom, to places without fences or barriers to the soul. It means encounters with a wilderness of dramatic contrasts and dazzling extremes that stretch our abilities and comprehension; and the spiritual renewal that comes in the silence of wild and lonely places, alone with the land and the open that seems to arch overhead in an endless sweep of blue. Millions visit the American West each year, but millions more ? including many Americans - know only the images found in movies and television advertisements. Writers and artists have used the landscape as a character so often that icons such as the Grand Canyon or the saguaro cactus are instantly recognized as "western," and it is almost impossible to describe the land without cliches. But even the most gross commercialization cannot diminish the grandeur of the West. The limits, if any, are put by the viewer overwhelmed finally by the awesome scenery and the irony of signs that announce "view point." The view is everywhere.Photographer Tamas R?v?sz followed the sun from the high Rockies to the fog-shrouded Pacific coast. showing the West through the eyes of a contemporary European explorer encountering the land for the first time: the Grand Canyon illuminated like a gigantic paper lantern; the snag-toothed mesa of sky-high Acoma, New Mexico; the single bold statement of Oregon's Crater Lake, set like a sapphire in the bowl of an extinct volcano. His images celebrate the land and praise the beauty of the West of open air. Seller Inventory # 20190914014
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Open Air: The American West / Vegtelen Ter: Az Amerikai Nyugat
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(1993)
ISBN 10: 9630435241
ISBN 13: 9789630435246
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Book Description Hardcover. SIGNED. First edition. Very Good hardcover with rubbing to one tip, one thin short wrinkle to the laminate, and light shelf wear; no dj as presumed issued. This copy is from the International Center of Photography library with a bookplate to the front paste down and a stamp to the colophon page, no other indications. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. A collection of lovely images of landscapes of the American West by the Hungarian-American photojournalist and educator. Photographs by Tamas Revesz; text by Judith Horstman. SIGNED BY REVESZ on the half title and inscribed to Howard Chapnick (19221996), the American editor, photo editor and a long-term leader of Black Star photo agency. 99 pages; color illustrations throughout; 9.75 x 10.75 inches. Biographies. Text in English and Hungarian. Seller Inventory # 21000
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