Gone to sanctuary : from the sins of confusion / photographs by John S. Kiewit.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kiewit, John S., 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape photography--West (U.S.).

Landscape photography.

Photography, Artistic.

West (U.S.)--Pictorial works.

West (U.S.).

Kiewit, John S., 1948-.

Kiewit, John S.

Physical Description:

254 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara : Capra Press, [1997]

Summary:

John Kiewit's color photographs create lingering traces on the imagination of what yet remains of the Old West. These starkly elegant images capture the decaying and pristine details of a time from our recent past when life was much simpler and closer to bedrock reality that it seems today. However, these are not sentimental reflections on nostalgic "good old days", rather, Kiewit's artistry is to present his natural and man-made 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 are matched with facing quotations from Kiewit's journal entries, as well as from a number of authors associated with the West, such as Steinbeck, Ed Abbey, Kerouac, John Muir, Henry Miller, et al., along with words from such inspirational sources as the Buddha, the Bible, Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. The blend of these quotes with Kiewit's images makes for a volume that offers thought-provoking as well as aesthetic pleasure. Kiewit's is an art of love and dedication to this western land, and to the people who once inhabited it and to those still hanging on, without preaching or moralizing; an art of lasting importance.

"John's photographs are ones we would make of places we've loved if we were able. He sees place". into the heart of a place". -- Gretel Ehrlich

ISBN:

0884964221

088496423X

OCLC:

36225177