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In this passage from his preface, Willard Clay discloses his initial incredulity that Illinois could be thick on the ground with photogenic opportunity. At the end of his eight-year campaign to run down all those opportunities, Clay is a believer. In this book, he gives us his proofs that Illinois is not only one of the most beautiful states in the Union, but that Illinois offers its people and other creatures countless sanctuaries for the solitary enjoyment of unblemished nature.
One of our country’s premier landscape photographers, Clay established his national reputation in the starkly spectacular settings of the arid West. But he always came home to Illinois with an enhanced appreciation for the subtle epiphanies latent in its undulating landforms and lush flora. As his mastery of his art matured, the technical challenge of revealing the veiled intimacies of the natural face of Illinois became a professional obsession.
Clay has relied as much on scientific system as on inspired intuition to put this book together. He charted his eight-year field campaign in such a way as to ensure complete coverage of the landscape diversity of Illinois. For, despite its undeserved reputation for blandness, Illinois does have an impressive variety of landscapes. The state is divided by scientists into four landform provinces. These seven provinces are subdivided into fourteen landform sections. Clay has organized his Wild & Scenic Illinois portfolio to represent every one of Illinois’s landform provinces and sections. These are usefully described in an introduction by naturalist Robert Hutchinson. Extended captions supply unexpected depth to the breadth and beauty of Clay’s images.
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