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Stones of the Sur
Robinson Jeffers
Morley Baer
James Karman
其他書名
Poetry by Robinson Jeffers, Photographs by Morley Baer
出版
Stanford University Press
, 2001
主題
Poetry / American / General
Photography / Photoessays & Documentaries
ISBN
0804739420
9780804739429
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=UQlPXnRicC8C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
The precipitous cliffs, rolling headlands, and rocky inlets of the Big Sur coast of California were alive for Robinson Jeffers, and throughout his long career as a poet, he extolled their wild beauty. His vivid descriptions inspired the best work of other artists who lived nearby, including such noted photographers as Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, and their younger contemporary Morley Baer.
Before he died in 1995, Baer was planning a volume that would bring together a group of his landscape photographs of the Big Sur area with a selection of poems that expressed Jefferss mystical experience of stone. Jeffers believed that stone is alive, perhaps even conscious in some way. Baer wanted to create a visual and literary meditation on the life-experience of stone. James Karman was invited by Baer to serve as his collaborator, and has brought the project to completionmore than 50 of Baers photographs paired with poems by Jeffers (some complete, others excerpted).
Stones of the Sur
is in five parts, each of which takes its title from a poem. Part I, Tor House, contains photographs and poems about Jefferss home, ever the locus of his inspiration. Part II, Continents End, begins with a panoramic view of the coastline and is followed by visual and textual images that become progressively narrower in scope as Baer and Jeffers focus on the mountains, cliffs, beaches, boulders, rocks, and pebbles of the Big Sur.
The inward progression continues in Part III, Oh Lovely Rock, where Baer trains his lens on close surfacesrevealing his sensibilities at their most abstract. From the middle of Part III on, the spiral is reversed and the view begins to open. Part IV, Credo, expands outwardly from the pebbles and rocks of the Big Sur back to the beaches, cliffs, and mountains. Part V, The Old Stone-Mason, concludes the book with a return to Tor House.