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Photographer Quinta Scott has documented the progression of the Mississippi River from its source at Lake Itasca to the Gulf of Mexico, with hundreds of stopping points along the way. Scott explains how we have changed e… More >>
The Mississippi: A Visual Biography
Written by admin on August 21st, 2010 in Outdoors & Nature.
Tags: Biography., Mississippi, Visual
This book, the result of many years of travel and research, is one of my most treasured books. Using an antique big view camera, Quinta brings photographic images almost into 3D on these pages. Quinta uses her photos and her texts to take you to many byways, inlets, and outlets formed by or left behind by the Mighty Mississippi–places you have never heard of. She found them, visited them, photographed them, and wrote about them in this magnificent book. I have spent hours pouring over the pages and intend to spend many more hours lost in the loveliness of this book. If you are a “coffee table book” person, then you should definitely put this one at the top of your wish list. I would like to personally thank the author for such a major undertaking and the end result.
Rating: 5 / 5
Quinta Scott’s book could not be more timely, though it was written before the BP disaster. Featured are hundreds of superb photographs befitting the title–The Mississippi: A Visual Biography. Now post BP fiasco, extraordinary photographs of already endangered marshes and wetlands may be all we have left for the foreseeable future. Ms. Scott’s book includes in-depth accounts of the river’s history (from glacial era to present); of its complexity; and of its scope from headwaters to delta. A fascinating read that takes you deep and leaves you in awe of “the great brown god” that bisects America.
Rating: 5 / 5