Desert Air: George Steinmetz - Hardcover

Steinmetz, George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1419705598 ISBN 13: 9781419705595

Publisher: Abrams, 2012

Synopsis

Celebrated exploration photographer George Steinmetz takes his art to a new level in Desert Air, the first comprehensive photographic collection of the world s extreme deserts, which receive less than four inches of precipitation per year. Steinmetz has spent 15 years on this epic body of work, capturing remarkable and surreally beautiful visions of deserts, from China s great Gobi Desert to the Sahara in northern Africa to Death Valley in California. Much more than a visual journey, these images are enriched by the exciting stories behind Steinmetz s adventures in some of the world s most difficult and challenging areas from smuggling his paraglider into Libya to getting arrested for spying in Iran, to crashing into a tree in western China. Desert Air reveals extraordinary desert ecosystems that together form a kind of disparate family of coevolved landscapes; similar, yet each unique in its own way.

About this title

From the Author:

Best known for exploration photography, George Steinmetz has spent the past 25 years photographing the remote corners of every continent for GEO and National Geographic magazines. He has won numerous awards for photography, including two first prizes from World Press Photo, as well as awards and citations from the Picture of the Year, Overseas Press Club and the Eisenstadt Awards. Trained as a geophysicist at Stanford University, he started his career by hitchhiking across Africa for two and a half years while teaching himself how to take pictures. While crossing the Sahara on a break from college, he dreamt of flying over its vast and surreal landscapes. Twenty years later he returned to pilot his own ultra-light aircraft over the Central Sahara, making that dream a reality and taking the pictures for his first book, African Air. He continued his explorations of deserts in Arabia, which were published as Empty Quarter, a rare look at the world’s largest sand sea in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman and the UAE. Hyper Arid is the culmination of fifteen years of fieldwork on all of the continents.

About the Author:

George Steinmetz has spent the last 25 years photographing remote corners of the world for National Geographic and GEO magazines. His awards include two first prizes from World Press Photo, as well as awards and citations from Pictures of the Year, Overseas Press Club, and the Eisenstadt Awards. He lives in New Jersey.

About this edition

• Publisher: Abrams
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1419705598
• ISBN 13: 9781419705595
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 380