Stone Canyons fo the Colorado Plateau (inscribed by the photographer Jack Dykinga to prominent Southwest photographer Tom Till)
NY: Abrams, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. A nice association copy, inscribed by the book's photographer in the year of publication on the front free endpaper: "For Tom [Till], Hope you like my version of your backyard. All the best, Jack Dykinga, 96." With essay by Charles Bowden and a foreword by Robert Redford. Tom Till (his website) is a prolific and well-known Southwest photographer known for his own images of the redrock and canyon country. He has authored more than 30 books (including collaborations with writers such as John McPhee in Outcroppings) and owns his own gallery in Moab. Dykinga began as a photojournalist and won a Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for The Chicago Tribune before he transitioned to landscape photography, of which he's published a dozen books. This book focuses on the Escalante River system and Paria Canyon on the borders of Utah and Arizona and makes the case for the power and preservation of this (and other) desert wilderness, one of the last to be mapped. The cover image was cited by The Guardian in 2010 as one of the 40 greatest nature photographs of all time. A short, wide quarto in deep blue cloth, 128 pages, 81 color images inside. Fine in a very good jacket with perhaps some rubbing as well as an inch-long tear across the top of the spine. A nice association. Fine / Very good. Item #2080
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