Trees: National Champions by Barbara Bosworth: Used

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Publication Date
2005-08-19
Pages
169
ISBN
0262025922

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262025922
ISBN-13
9780262025928
eBay Product ID (ePID)
46457376

Product Key Features

Book Title
Trees : National Champions
Number of Pages
144 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Topic
Plants / Trees, General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Photography
Author
Barbara Bosworth
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
43 Oz
Item Length
12 in
Item Width
9.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-047919
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"The power of this book, its strange beauty, is in Ms. Bosworth's gloriousphotographs of the trees themselves. An aloe yucca, in Georgia, like a leggy creature out of Dr.Seuss. A Sitka spruce in Oregon, elephantine in the puny woods that surround it. A gumbo-limbo in aFlorida cemetery, its wide limbs a peaceful invitation. Ms. Bosworth's art respects their integrity,even in unworthy surroundings. Let us now praise famous trees." Wall Street Journal'sWeekend Edition, "... a subtle and complex portrait of our cultural landscape, as well as ourcelebrated trees." Brooklyn Botanical Garden's Plants & GardensNews, "... a subtle and complex portrait of our cultural landscape, as well as our celebrated trees." Brooklyn Botanical Garden's Plants & Gardens News, "Bosworth's dramatic, panoramic black-and-white photographs simultaneously documentour country's evolving landscape and capture the dignity, tenacity, and singular nobility of gnarledyet graceful giants. Eloquent essays complement the stark beauty of Bosworth's photographic paeanhonoring individual trees' triumph over onslaught of time and the environment." Booklist, " The power of this book, its strange beauty, is in Ms. Bosworthrs" s glorious photographs of the trees themselves. An aloe yucca, in Georgia, like a leggy creature out of Dr. Seuss. A Sitka spruce in Oregon, elephantine in the puny woods that surround it. A gumbo-limbo in a Florida cemetery, its wide limbs a peaceful invitation. Ms. Bosworthrs" s art respects their integrity, even in unworthy surroundings. Let us now praise famous trees." -- "Wall Street Journalrs" s Weekend Edition", "Bosworth's dramatic, panoramic black-and-white photographs simultaneously document our country's evolving landscape and capture the dignity, tenacity, and singular nobility of gnarled yet graceful giants. Eloquent essays complement the stark beauty of Bosworth's photographic paean honoring individual trees' triumph over onslaught of time and the environment." Booklist, "Bosworth's dramatic, panoramic black-and-white photographs simultaneously document our country's evolving landscape and capture the dignity, tenacity, and singular nobility of gnarled yet graceful giants. Eloquent essays complement the stark beauty of Bosworth's photographic paean honoring individual trees' triumph over onslaught of time and the environment." - Booklist, "The power of this book, its strange beauty, is in Ms. Bosworth's glorious photographs of the trees themselves. An aloe yucca, in Georgia, like a leggy creature out of Dr. Seuss. A Sitka spruce in Oregon, elephantine in the puny woods that surround it. A gumbo-limbo in a Florida cemetery, its wide limbs a peaceful invitation. Ms. Bosworth's art respects their integrity, even in unworthy surroundings. Let us now praise famous trees." Wall Street Journal's Weekend Edition
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Photographed by
Bosworth, Barbara
Dewey Decimal
635.9/77/0973
Synopsis
Hauntingly beautiful photographs of 70 "champion" trees-each the biggest of its species-in a book that offers a dignified portrait of the American landscape and its true environmental heroes., Trees capture our imagination because they are rooted solidly in the earth but point ethereally toward the sky. They occupy a dimension that has as much to do with time and patience as with place and landscape. They are vertical beings to whom we attribute qualities both divine and human. Since 1991, photographer Barbara Bosworth has been on a quest to photograph America's "champion" trees -- trees that are the biggest of their species, as recorded in the National Register of Big Trees, a list established and maintained by the nonprofit conservation organization American Forests. She has traveled down highways and up back roads, walked through forests and across clear-cut land, sometimes led by local tree enthusiasts, sometimes alone, to photograph trees that are remarkable not only for their size but for their endurance.Bosworth finds champion trees in backyards, fields, and forests, near roadways, power lines, and sidewalks. Her photographs document the trees' magnificence but also show how they are markers of a changing landscape. The yellow poplar, for example, stands on the fringes of a suburban housing development, in the center of a park for the enjoyment and relaxation of residents. The western red cedar stands alone in the middle of a clear-cut, saved from logging only because it is recorded in the Register as the biggest of its kind. The trees and their surroundings tell us about our relationship with nature and the land.Bosworth captures the ineffable grace and dignity of trees with clarity and directness: the green ash that shades a midwestern crossroads, the common pear that blooms in a Washington field, and the Florida strangler fig with its mass of entwining aerial roots. Her photographs, panoramic views taken with an 8 x 10 camera, show the immensity of the largest species and the hidden triumphs of the smallest. Some trees are dethroned each year because of sickness or destruction, but more often simpy because a new and bigger specimen is discovered; only three trees from the original Register in 1940 are still living today. Bosworth's 70 photographs of champion trees are not only a collection of tree portraits but the story of an American adventure as well.A copublication with the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson.
LC Classification Number
SD383.3.U6B69 2005

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