{"product_id":"this-land-an-american-portrait-hardback-9781477311899","title":"This Land; An American Portrait (Hardback) 9781477311899","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThis Land\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAn American Portrait\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJack Spencer (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477311899, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 7 March 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e284 pages, 148 color photos\u003cbr\u003e27.9 x 33 x 3 cm, 2.608 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"'Bang!' went my heart when I opened the photographer Jack Spencer’s powerful \u003ci\u003eThis Land: An American Portrait.\u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003c\/div\u003e (New York Times Book Review) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Spencer dazzles us with his visual poetry while at the same time guiding us to look beyond his images. He explores the delicate balance struck with what our culture demands and what truly is important to lead a fulfilling life.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Great Plains Quarterly) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Spencer has given us a great gift.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Garden \u0026amp; Gun)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eJarred by the 9\/11 attacks, photographer Jack Spencer set out in 2003 “in hopes of making a few ‘sketches’ of America in order to gain some clarity on what it meant to be living in this nation at this moment in time.” Across thirteen years, forty-eight states, and eighty thousand miles of driving, Spencer created a vast, encompassing portrait of the American landscape that is both contemporary and timeless.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis Land\u003c\/i\u003e presents some one hundred and forty photographs that span the nation, from Key West to Death Valley and Texas to Montana. From the monochromatic and distressed black-and-white images that began the series to the oversaturated color of more recent years, these photographs present a startlingly fresh perspective on America. The breadth of imagery in \u003ci\u003eThis Land\u003c\/i\u003e brings to mind the works of such American masters as Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, Mark Rothko, and Albert Bierstadt, while also evoking the sense of the open roads traveled by Woody Guthrie and Jack Kerouac. Spencer’s pictorialist vision embraces the sweeping variety of American landscapes-coasts, deltas, forests, deserts, mountain ranges, and prairies-and iconic places such as Mount Rushmore and Wounded Knee. Jon Meacham writes in the foreword that Spencer’s “most surprising images are of a country that I suspect many of us believed had disappeared. The fading churches, the roaming bison, the running horses: Spencer has found a mythical world, except it is real, and it is now, and it is ours.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685309640984,"sku":"9781477311899","price":42.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/this-land-an-american-portrait-hardback-9781477311899","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}