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Archive for January 2018

Book review: A Photographer’s Life by Jack Dykinga

Posted on January 29, 2018, 10:13 pm, by QT Luong, under Books.
A quarter-century ago, when I started large format nature photography, Jack Dykinga’s work was a main source of inspiration. His wilderness advocacy books on the American Southwest, and in particular the Sonoran, Mojave, and Escalante Canyons, used fine art photography as a means to document the land in a way both accurate and stirring. I […]
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Three Unnamed Iconic Rocks, Jumbo Rocks, Joshua Tree National Park

Posted on January 15, 2018, 11:45 pm, by QT Luong, under Locations.
Joshua Tree National Park is well-known for the namesake Joshua trees and rounded boulders. The Jumbo Rocks area, home to the largest campground in the park (124 campsites), contains some of Joshua Tree National Park’s most whimsical rock formations. The most interesting are unnamed, and their locations passed from photographer to photographer. You’ve seen the […]
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Best Photobooks 2017: the Meta-List

Posted on January 8, 2018, 11:55 pm, by QT Luong, under Books.
How do you separate wheat from chaff within the several thousand photobooks published last year? Photographers, critics, curators, and journalists have been writing year-end lists of best (favorite, interesting, notable…) photobooks. However, each list is subjective and limited by the number of photobooks to which the writer had access. The meta-list is a methodology to […]
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Happy New Year 2018

Posted on January 1, 2018, 12:01 am, by QT Luong, under Uncategorized.
Today the winter sun rises on the first page of a 365-page blank book. Make it the best you can! After a night in my car, I showed up for sunrise in Lassen Volcanic National Park…. brrr! Lassen Peak has the highest snow accumulation in California, and snow closed the park road, leaving only Manzanita […]
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