April 12, 2024
Thoreau; Porter, Eliot IN THE WILDNESS IS THE PRESERVATION OF THE WORLD 1st Ed
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Thoreau; Porter, Eliot IN THE WILDNESS IS THE PRESERVATION OF THE WORLD 1st EdThoreau; Porter, Eliot IN THE WILDNESS IS THE PRESERVATION OF THE WORLD 1st EdDescriptionStunning collectible coffee table bookFirst Edition"Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment...and therefore for the fostering of a healthy human race and even very likely for its survival." --Eliot Porter, 1962"first publication of "In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World" by Eliot Porter, one of photography's most beloved and bestselling titles.In 1962, photographer Eliot Porter and the Sierra Club founder, David Brower, published this bestselling, and now long-out-of-print, classic monograph that has often been referred to as "the very first coffee table book" ever published.Porter masterfully created and paired his color photographs of the New England woods with passages by writer Henry David Thoreau. Both Porter and Thoreau--although they lived a century apart--constantly worked to preserve Nature and protect it from manmade interference. The finished "collaboration" arrived in an era when environmental causes were not in the public consciousness, and yet the book became an overnight publishing success that lasted many decades with multiple print runs and and formats.cloth cover with foil debossing,
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