Eye on Australia

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Photographs by Michael Ruetz
Introduction by Harry Butler
61 color illustrations, including 5 panoramic foldouts
Australia marks its bicentennial in 1988, and there is no more fitting tribute to the nation and the event than this sweeping portrait by photographer Michael Ruetz. With his Linhof Technorama camera, Ruetz captures as never before the immense space and brilliant sunlight of the land "dow/n under." He becomes our guide through the most remote stretches of this ancient land, from Ayers Rock and Jourama National Park to the Gold Coast of Queensland and Sydney by night.
In his introduction, Australian naturalist Harry Butler describes his home as "a culture that lives almost entirely around the margins of a burning inland sea." He applauds the work of the German-born Ruetz, who came to Australia a stranger but then crossed that inland sea, covering more than thirty thousand miles in his travels. Butler writes: "The universal appeal and... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Eye on
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$50.00
flâlL lâ
Photographs by Michael Ruetz
Introduction by Harry Butler
61 color illustrations, including 5 panoramic foldouts
Australia marks its bicentennial in 1988, and there is no more fitting tribute to the nation and the event than this sweeping portrait by photographer Michael Ruetz. With his Linhof Technorama camera, Ruetz captures as never before the immense space and brilliant sunlight of the land "dow/n under." He becomes our guide through the most remote stretches of this ancient land, from Ayers Rock and Jourama National Park to the Gold Coast of Queensland and Sydney by night.
In his introduction, Australian naturalist Harry Butler describes his home as "a culture that lives almost entirely around the margins of a burning inland sea." He applauds the work of the German-born Ruetz, who came to Australia a stranger but then crossed that inland sea, covering more than thirty thousand miles in his travels. Butler writes: "The universal appeal and understanding presented by the images contained in this book transcend the bounds of language, culture, and community They leave me, as well as others who have seen them, with a marvellous feeling of calm and peace. Ruetz has come as close as anyone can to exposing Australia's essential character."
Ruetz's vision balances the breathtaking with subtler beauties: silvery baobab trees, bushfire, desert roads. These images speak both to the influence of man and to the permanence of nature. The five panoramic foldouts convey the sense of a horizon without end. Eye on Australia achieves a grandeur in keeping with its subject; it is the ultimate portrait of this inspiring, ancient land.


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