At Home in the Northern Forest: Photographs of the Changing Vermont Landscape

Author:   John Huddleston ,  Bill McKibben
Publisher:   George F. Thompson
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9781938086694


Pages:   168
Publication Date:   29 February 2020
Format:   Hardback
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At Home in the Northern Forest: Photographs of the Changing Vermont Landscape


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"The Northern Forest of North America - stretching from New England and eastern Canada into the Upper Midwest - is one of the world's largest contiguous forests. Complex and beautiful, it supports a wide variety of life, and the woodlands offer an interconnected vastness that gives American and Canadian lives perspective and balance. This book is timely, for the Northern Forest is at the heart of important environmental and economic issues that have become critical, especially as big logging companies sell large portions of their land. The very existence of this forest is extraordinary. For instance, in 1870 the forest covered just thirty percent of Vermont, but today eighty percent is woodland. This remarkable turnaround has taken place on what is overwhelmingly private land. Environmentalist Bill McKibben, in his introduction, says, ""This unintentional and mostly unnoticed renewal of the rural and mountainous east represents the great environmental story of the United States and, in some ways, the whole world."" But forest acreage has begun to decrease in every state in New England, as trees are removed for commercial development. Renowned photographer John Huddleston brings a contemporary vision to show the unique and transitory character of this amazing forest. His photographs were made with precise attention to ordinary beauty and circumstance as he sauntered in the woods with camera in hand. Through his photographs we gain a deep appreciation and understanding of the Northern Forest and see how proper forest management enhances both commercial and ecological interests. Under Huddleston's care, natural change is embodied in a new type of photographic composite created from exposures made of similar scenes in different seasons. This difficult, labour-intensive process elicits direct comprehension of cyclic time. Coupled with his straight photographs, the book reveals the dynamic forms and processes of the Northern Forest. And an array of text references explore the biology, economics, history, philosophy, and vulnerability of this vast regional landscape. 151 colour photographs"

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Author:   John Huddleston ,  Bill McKibben
Publisher:   George F. Thompson
Imprint:   George F. Thompson
ISBN:  

9781938086694


ISBN 10:   1938086694
Pages:   168
Publication Date:   29 February 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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A wonderful book! The stunning photographs infuse landscape with piercing meditative depths--whether in the revelatory Time Composites series, with its dramatic effects, or in the seemingly more conventional images, with their subtle insights and surprises, clarities and beauties. This is work that can transform the way you see landscape or anything else. --David Hinton, author of Hunger Mountain and Existence: A Story


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John Huddleston is the Fletcher Professor of Studio Art Emeritus at Middlebury College. He has had one-person exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Museum, Stony Brook University Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside, Art Gallery, University of Michigan Art Museum at Ann Arbor, and Wave Hill in New York City, among others. Huddleston’s other books are Killing Ground: Photographs of the Civil War and the Changing American Landscape (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002) and Healing Ground: Walking the Small Farms of Vermont (Center for American Places, 2012). Bill McKibben is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a founder of 350.org, the first planet-wide, grassroots climate change movement, and the author of more than a dozen books.

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