America's Vanishing Landscapes: The Western States

by Wayne Williams (Photographer)

Overview

A Stunning Tribute to the West’s Rapidly Diminishing Wilderness. Introduction by Prominent Environmentalist Andy Lipkis, Founder of Tree People, as well as an essay by Wayne Williams, a Southern California native who grew up during one of the country’s most rapid proliferation of cities, suburbs and resulting urban blight.
America’s Vanishing Landscapes was inspired by Williams’s distress at the diminishing natural world as well as his belief that nature is one of humanity’s most emotionally sustaining elements.

A subtle protest of environmental complacency and detachment, it is the first in a continuing series of books and documentaries he has undertaken to continue increasing attention of the starkly fading natural landscape in the U.S. Far from defeatist, his is a refreshingly optimistic vision of what could be our planet’s destiny.

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Product Details

BN ID:	2940012881090
Publisher:	Wayne Williams
Publication date:	06/15/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	19 MB
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About the Author

Having been a professional photographer for over 3 decades I’ve had many wonderful experiences and worked with some pretty nice people. I’ve shot for the likes of Nissan, Disney and ABC and spent a good deal of my career photographing people places and things all over the world. I still enjoy the pleasure of capturing the magic that happens when everything comes together and the light cast on this amazing world we live in is just right.

In particular, I’m most proud of the landscapes I’ve shot. I feel the land all around us, if we really look at it and really appreciate it, brings us back to a reverential state of mind where one realizes that our own personal health and well being, and the health of all people, is directly tied to the health of the land.

These landscapes are an expression of my feelings about who we are and where we come from. I show our earth’s beauty in my images, in a sense, through the eyes of our ancestors. I want to nurture a vision of where we are, what we dream of and what we can become.

I hope you can feel that each landscape I’ve photographed, in its own way, is a place of meditation. In these works, I wish to show the spirit of the land and in that spirit spread an awareness and growing respect for this home of ours, and in turn a respect for ourselves. If my art brings a sense of enchantment to people, then it is with those seeds of joy and awareness that in some small way I might help us stake our claim to a peaceful and beautiful future.

Editorial Reviews

Wayne Williams captures the beauty of the western United States in a way that inspires a respect for nature. Hopefully, everyone will have an opportunity to view this book and remember to treat our environment as the gift it truly is.

Janis Raynak

Imagine a world without pollution, trash or development. No, it's not a John Lennon ballad but the work of Wayne Williams.

Los Angeles artist, Williams uses the newest technology to reveal the way our environment looked before modern-day intrusions.

Booth Moore