Sin Sombras Without Shadows : A Search for the Meaning of Life, If There Is One, in the California Desert in Photographs and Stories / James G. Barbee ; with a foreword by Jack Leustig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barbee, James G., author.

Contributor:

Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

Leustig, Jack, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colorado Desert (Calif. and Mexico)--Pictorial works.

Colorado Desert (Calif. and Mexico).

North America--Colorado Desert.

Photography, Artistic.

Landscape photography.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

195 pages : color illustrations ; 35 cm

Place of Publication:

Staunton, Va., George F Thompson, 2018.

Summary:

Ever wish you could push the "reset" button on the world in which you live as well as the one you carry inside your head? Are you tired of a culture that seems infatuated with wealth and the superfluous, where people can become famous simply by being outrageous or otherwise well known?0If that world is not working for you, perhaps you should consider a trip to the desert, just as holy men, mystics, prophets, and eccentrics have done for thousands of years, seeking solitude and inspiration, wisdom and direction in a land of extremes. This is what author Jim Barbee did, seeking Inner Space in the expansive California Desert that lies just 100 miles east of Los Angeles and the other coastal cities of Southern California.0Sin Sombras is Barbee's attempt, in photographs and stories, to relive the California Desert: a landscape where there are no shadows (sin sombras), no shade, no place to hide or find relief. It is a wild, arid, and sparsely populated region, "flyover" country for most travelers, a place to pass through or endure, but also home to hardy individuals who live in one of the harshest climates on Earth.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

ISBN:

9781938086588

1938086589

OCLC:

1001456707