Caleb Cain Marcus: A Portrait of Ice

by Robin Bell, Marvin Heiferman (Text), Caleb Cain Marcus (Photographer)

Photographer Caleb Cain Marcus' second monograph, A Portrait of Ice finds breathtaking worlds of color in the glaciers of Patagonia, Iceland, Norway, New Zealand and Alaska. Devastatingly lonely, yet beautiful, these landscapes where ice meets sky seem to belong to a world where man has never set foot.

72 pages, Paperback

First published September 30, 2012

Reviews

[Tracy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gorgeous photos almost like watercolor with such texture! I like the framing of the photos, the ice like a geode at the bottom of each image beneath a muted but bright sky, subtly textured with hints of clouds or tonal gradients. The blue and white and gray ice, dusted and streaked and spotted with black, shape subtly different topography at each glacier, while expressing a vast diversity of form between glaciers. At the end, each glacier is named along with a brief note about it, which I appreciated. I can only imagine the amount of time and effort it took to create this work, not only the international travel but also getting similar enough conditions to achieve tonally similar skies and ice fields. I like the matte paper for these prints. The large pages would be suitable for taking apart and framing, I think.