John Kiewit's photographs create lingering traces on the imagination of what remains of the Old West. These starkly elegant images capture the decaying details of a time from our recent past when life was much simpler and closer to bedrock reality than it seems today. Yet these are not sentimental reflections on nostalgic "good old days, " rather, Kiewit's artistry is to present his natural and manmade subjects with an eye for the beauty and epic grandeur that can still be discovered in abandoned or wilderness lands, if one ...
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John Kiewit's photographs create lingering traces on the imagination of what remains of the Old West. These starkly elegant images capture the decaying details of a time from our recent past when life was much simpler and closer to bedrock reality than it seems today. Yet these are not sentimental reflections on nostalgic "good old days, " rather, Kiewit's artistry is to present his natural and manmade subjects with an eye for the beauty and epic grandeur that can still be discovered in abandoned or wilderness lands, if one just takes the time and trouble to go out and look at it. The photographs, matched with quotations from his own journal entries, as well as from authors associated with the west (Steinbeck, Abbey Kerouac, Muir, et al.), along with words from such inspirational sources as the Buddha, the Bible, Thoreau, Whitman and Emerson, make for a volume that offers not only thought-provoking but aesthetic pleasure.
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Near fine copy (very light damp stain on top edges) in near fine (light damp staining along top edges) dust jacket (in mylar). 4to. Illustrated in black, white and color. Inscribed by the author. Limited edition of 1000 copies.
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Very Good + in very good + jacket. Quarto, biege cloth boards in dust jacket, book and jacket are in very good + condiiton, jacket shows edgewear and rubbing, book shows light wear, 254pp.
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Very good. No dust jacket as issued. issue of 3000 copies in oversize paperback. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 251 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.