L'autore:
Gary Geboy's 25 years in photography and cinematography has taken him around the world – from Peace Corps documentaries in Kyrgyzstan to a National Gallery of Art exhibit on the Olmecs of ancient Mexico. His latest journey was along the Pan American Highway from Nogales, Arizona to Ushuaia, Argentina photographing landscapes and portraits in twelve Latin American countries.He specializes in environmental portraits from around the globe, many of which were featured in a juried show at the McLlean Center for the Arts. His work can currently be seen at the Smithsonian's Rock and Soul Museum in Memphis Tennessee and at the National Park Service visitor center at the Manzanar National Historic Site in California.Geboy and Bruce collaborated on a photo-essay published in Discover Mexico magazine in 2003 called “Discovering the Passionate Mexico.”
Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:
In the sticky heat of a South Carolina Lowcountry summer, horizons are swallowed by humidity. The curves of creeks and heavy skies blend and fade in ethereal ascension. Distances distort and textures soften in air too thick to breathe.But on a clear night, under a full moon at high tide, the water shimmers, a sideways-slipping sea. Pinch yourself to stay awake, for dreams can harbor no more liquid a mystery than the Lowcountry. Poetry can pattern no more regular a meter, song no more flowing a rhythm. But photography can conjure up the essence of a place, the shifting layers of light, the fleeting presence of its past, and transfer its grace.It began long ago, this softly shared and gentle grace. Native peoples left shell-ring maps to the natural treasures of the Lowcountry and rhythmic names for later tongues to try: Ashepoo, Combahee and Yemassee. Enslaved Africans brought with them and passed down arts like sweetgrass basket weaving and soulful song. Plantation owners, too, bequeathed a beauty to the Lowcountry - live oaks line the avenues to antebellum mansions. Traditions mingled and adapted. What is left is often the least tangible and most tenuous of tenders. Wade into the work of Gary Geboy and the words of Teresa Bruce through the pages of Transfer of Grace. Save a place for the Lowcountry in your soul.
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