Mono Lake: Explorations and Reflections

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Summary: Amazing photos of an amazing place.
Review: One of the top five color monographs in the last five years. In some respects, this is better that being there, if you can't be there year-round. Being both a photographer and a past resident of the Mono Basin, I relate not so much to the grand and spectactular images of tufa and sky, but to the perceptive and sublime studies of the sedate and the subtle; to the solitude found in the silence of winter and early spring. They speak to Mono's true sense of place, and as such make this a universal look at wilderness as we may never see it again. Stimson represents the rare landscape photographer who transcends the standard narrative of picture postcard color, offering the viewer a palette of texture, pattern, light and shadow more often associated with the best in black and white photography of the land.