Black Rock, Paperback (2010), $30.00
New in paperbound!
By Peter Goin and Paul F. Starrs
The Black Rock is a desert realm the size of Delaware about one hundred miles north of Reno, Nevada. Shaped by water, wind, geothermal activity, and human interaction since ancient times, the desolate, haunting landscape nonetheless teems with life in forms that have endured for millennia.
In a brilliant duet, a photographer and a geographer explore this eloquent, enigmatic landscape that has been the focus of study and contemplation by scientists, explorers, naturalists, overland sojourners, and artists.
“Black Rock goes beyond the literate, learned, and playful flair of Paul Starrs’s language and the art, irony, and honesty of Peter Goin’s photographs. The ideas in both visions—the intellectual statements of what place means—distill the relationship between people and landscape to its physical essence.”—Stephen Trimble
“Peter Goin and Paul Starrs have produced an elegant piece of work that captures the essence of the Black Rock Playa and the mountains, meadows, and desert valleys that surround it.”—The Geographical Review
Peter Goin is an internationally renowned photographer and the author of numerous award-winning books including Nuclear Landscapes (Johns Hopkins University Press) and Humanature (The Center for the American Places and the University of Chicago Press). He is co-founder and President of Black Rock Institute Press and Foundation Professor of Art at the University of Nevada, Reno. Paul F. Starrs is Foundation Professor of geography at the University of Nevada, Reno and the author of Let the Cowboy Ride: Cattle Ranching in the American West (Johns Hopkins University Press).
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