Desert Light: A Photographer's Journey Through Desert Southwest

by John Annerino

Book Overview

John Annerino, renowned photographer and author of America's Southwest and Old Mexico, risked life and limb to venture on foot into the most remote, abandoned, and chillingly silent tracts of the Painted, Sonoran, Mojave, and Chihuahuan deserts on both sides of the U.S. and Mexican border. His quest: to capture desert light from the highest summits, the starkest deserts, and the deepest canyons; and to convey the primal beauty of these impossibly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881506826
• ISBN13: 9780881506822
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Countryman Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 10.8" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

"Desert Light is just stunning!"

"I've lived in the Southwest most of my life, and I have never seen collections of photographs of this area before that are as beautiful and vividly alive as those shared by John Annerino in his latest book, Desert Light: A Photographer's Journey through America's Desert Southwest." "As in his many other books of photographs over the last twenty years, Annerino keeps on finding those perfect moments to snap the shutter - moments when the clouds are stiller than still, the sand dunes can actually be perceived to be moving, the rock formations are hanging there wonderously living on and on, and the faces of those few humans one encounters out there seem to come out of past millennia. I've been watching this same desert country during countless hikes and climbs, yet Annerino's work always wakes me up, makes me come to from my reveries, and makes me feel like I've never quite seen all this beauty before. It's like glimpses of a parallel universe where the suchness of it all is greater than can usually be seen and known in the ordinary world of our perceptions." "With heartfelt gratitude for John Annerino's artistry." - John Bilby, Mindfulness "Desert Light, and John Annerino's other books, represent an amazing life's work. With all the trekking the author does in these pursuits, there still resonates a `yin' side to the work - it shows in the photographs." - A.L. Hartford "Just when you think you've seen every possible photo of every southwestern place, John Annerino brings us a delightfully fresh look..Willing to escape the beaten paths and comfortable camps, Annerino shows each location from a new angle and in new light. He totes his camera to Bisti Badlands, Monument Valley, the summit of Picacho del Diablo, the shores of the Sea of Cortez, the depths of the Grand Canyon, and vivid points in between. Desert Light evokes the mysteries and beauties that are the Southwest, blending art, humanity, and adventure." - Bill Broyles, Southwest Books of the Year "Desert Light is just stunning! The Images are incredible. And the printing is absolutely first rate. I will treasure it!" - HSC, San Francisco.

A powerful journey

Desert Light, A Photographer's Journey through America's Desert Southwest by photojournalist author John Annerino is his finest work to date. He has captured through his photographs and essays America's Outback - the unseen, mysterious, remote and breathtakingly beautiful country of the Southwest Desert land. To photograph these scenes he climbed to the top of this world where he discovered it's majesty and secrets. The light of the desert illuminates the photos portraying the landscape in grandeaur and awe. The Southwest has always called to Annerino to be it's messenger of hidden places and stories as in his work on The Grand Canyon but in Desert Light he has taken risks higher than ever before and been rewarded with a vision that is spellbindngly gorgeous. We can only be thankful that he dared to venture to these uninhabited vistas to portray this majestic no-man's land.