Spectacular America

by Dana Levy (Editor), Tom Bean (Photographer), Carr Clifton (Photographer)

A stirring portrait of our nation's scenic diversity, this magnificent volume unfurls the sweeping grandeur of the American landscape. More than 200 color photographs capture the country's regional variety - from the virgin timberlands of Alaska to the mangrove swamps of the Florida Everglades, from the bucolic hills of New England to the spectacular mountain bluffs of Big Sur, where the land meets the sun-drenched California surf. Featuring six foldouts opening to nearly four feet, the book's large horizontal format - 16 x 12 inches - delivers the immense scope of our native splendor. Extraordinary photographs by some of the most talented photographers working in America today include many produced in the new panorama format, as well as 360-degree views shot on an antique Cirkut camera.

Board Book

Published November 1, 1994

About the author

Born in Tel Aviv, Dana Levy lives and works in New York and Tel Aviv. Levy received her post-graduate at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Scotland (1998) and her B.A. from Camberwell College of Art in London (1997).

Levy works with video and digital photography, and deals mostly with memory, identity, and home, often as a temporary place. Her latest works include mostly nature, still life and animals. Her photographic series “Habitat” and the video “Disengagement,” were produced during Israel’s disengagement from Gaza. In both, she explores the challenge of expressing emotion with the absence of people. In her recent work, “The Wake," Levy released 100 live butterflies in the Entomology department of a natural history museum. For her, "the work explores themes such as revolution, awakening from suppression, resurrection, transition, and most of all - freedom."

Reviews

[Trina · Rating 3 out of 5]

Makes a nice coffee-table book. Photos are pretty to look at tho' most are predictably familiar. From Yosemite, CA to Arcadia, ME, you'll get beautiful sunset and sunrise shots--some spread across two pages--but no surprising vistas or haunting landscapes that you haven't already seen on a calendar... The text is patriotic boilerplate, just enough to identify the geographic location and to provide some factual context. I didn't know oats are harvested in Wisconsin, for instance. Or that gigantic fallen trees are called nurse logs on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state.