Kategoria BISAC: Photography >> Subjects & Themes - Regional (see also Travel - Pictorials)

The Texas coast attracts everyone--children playing in the surf and building sand castles; high school and college students partying at spring break; adults easing workaday stresses by beachcombing, birding, fishing, or just watching the waves roll in one after another. In the coast's elemental landscape of low dunes, sandy beaches, salt water, and sea breezes, life itself seems simpler. There's time to watch the seagulls fighting over a fish, bodysurf in the waves, pick up shells on the beach, and reconnect with the healing rhythms of nature.

This beautiful book combines Laurence...

Light, water, and woods have always inspired Seattle artists and poets, and their views at the end of our millennium are especially rich, complex, subtle, and often humorous. This title celebrates these individual visions in a commemorative book sponsored by the City of Seattle through the Seattle Arts Commission.

Photographs by Marsha Burns, Michael Burns, Lee Friedlander, Natalie Fobes, Peter DeLory and poetry by Denise Levertov, Richard Hugo, Colleen J. McElroy, and others are brought together to create a handsome and thoughtful portrait of Seattle at the end of its defining...

In On the Road Again, William Wyckoff explores Montana's changing physical and cultural landscape by pairing photographs taken by state highway engineers in the 1920s and 1930s with photographs taken at the same sites today. The older photographs, preserved in the archives of the Montana Historical Society, were intended to document the expenditure of federal highway funds. Because it is nearly impossible to photograph a road without also photographing the landscape through which that road passes, these images contain a wealth of information about the state's environment during the...

Kansans of the 1930s and 1940s lived through more sweeping changes than any other generation past or present. Destructive forces of nature, an economy gone awry, and a devastating--and ironically, economically renewing--war left the world irrevocably altered. In this captivating collection, some of America's best-known documentary photographers provide a valuable...

Considered by many to be lacking in inspiration, the prairie is shown by photographer Terry Evans to be a land of varied textures. Evans seeks to have us pay attention to the ways we perceive both the natural and the cultural in this underappreciated landscape, and in this...

In 105 full-color photographs Dancer moves through the four seasons, capturing first the vast, spare grandeur of prairie and sky, then focusing closer, to illuminate the more intimate pieces of the Kansas...