The Interior Landscape: The Landscape on Both Sides of the Camera: Reflections on Art, Creativity, Expression, and a Life in Photography

by Guy Tal

A deeply thoughtful and inspiring collection
of essays about visual expression, art, creativity, and a life in photography

Photographer, teacher, and author Guy Tal has
been photographing the landscape for more than 30 years, and in that time he
has also been consistently contributing to the literature of photography,
writing not about the technical aspects of the photograph—the gear, the
exposure details, the “secrets to getting a great shot”—but about the deeper
topics of visual expression, creativity, art, and life.

Building on the legacy of his previous
best-selling books More Than a Rock and Another Day
Not Wasted, as well as his work as a regular contributor to LensWork and On
Landscape magazines, The Interior Landscape is a
collection of more than 60 brief essays, packaged in a beautiful hardcover
format and illustrated throughout with Guy's stunning photography.

Organized into four parts, Guy

• Creativity and expression as the most
significant aspects of making art

• The controversial and tenuous relationship
between photography (by design a medium for objective representation) and art
(by definition the subjective expressions of the imagination of artists)

• How he has formed a relationship with, and
found meaning in, the natural landscape, and how he expresses these meanings in
his photographs

• Lessons learned from more than three decades
of practicing expressive landscape photography



























The Interior Landscape is for anyone interested in, as the title
suggests, turning inward to explore creativity, art, expression, and the
landscape. It is sure to illuminate, educate, and inspire you on your
photographic journey.

222 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 27, 2022

About the author

I am a professional writer and photographic artist living in Utah. I am the author of several books, a blogger, and an educator. In my photographs, I aim to express emotions and moods rather than to document or commemorate the appearances of places or events.

Reviews

[Vitali Prokopenko · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is the third book in the series and as far as I am concerned it gets worse and worse. The most of the book the author seems to argue for photography to be an art form. I’m not sure who he argues with. I’m convinced long time ago. The author’s images are very poetic and each of them holds my attention. His writing is excellent to, his descriptions of nature and his experiences is very romantic and poetic. They inspire me, motivate me to get out into the wilderness and make pictures myself. The problem is that with each next book there’s less and less of this type of writing. In the first one it was at least 30%. In this one is less than 5%. The rest is amateurish philosophy, I bare forced myself through it.