Oregon III. [antikvár]

OREGON nrPHOTOGRAPHY BY RAY ATKESONTEXT BY RICHARD ROSS125 full-color photographs22,900 words of text and captionsSix sections portray the stateFull-color relief map of OregonRay Atkeson's third volume, OREGON III, joins his twoprevious editions, OREGON (1968) and OREGON II (1974).OREGON III contains Atkeson's favorite subjects and some ofhis most remarkable photographs.Ray Atkeson's love of Oregon was shown in this statementshortly before his death: "Oregon has been a happy huntingground for me for well over half a century. In fact, it was justsixty years ago that I discovered this great part of the world afterspending three summers exploring the West." His faultlesscompositions bring the diversity, color, and dramatic scale ofOregon's landscape to the pages of this volume. Atkesonselected images that are variations on his signature locations:Cape Kiwanda, Crown Point and the Columbia River Gorge,Mount Hood and Portland, Eagle Cap Wilderness and thePainted Hills.Organized by region within the state (as was the originalOREGON edition), here are exciting images of Black Butte,Cape Arago, climbers on Mount Hood, and snow-ringed CraterLake. Atkeson also found quiet moments and simple, compel-ling compositions in desert blooms and ocean tide pools. Hecrossed and recrossed Oregon, his home for nearly sixty years,and with continued dedication and persistence, created this,his third masterpiece.Journalist and former Channel 2 Evening News anchorRichard Ross creates the text, weaving a word picture ofOregon out of hours of conversation with Oregonians whoshared their thoughts, feelings, and stories.Ray Atkeson's OREGON III is a work of art from Oregon'smaster photographer and, along with his two other volumes, abook for all to treasure. OREGON, the first large-format, pho-tographic book ever published with color plates about a state,set the trend for the past twenty years. OREGON II followedand holds a sales record for Graphic Arts Center PublishingCompany with over 100,000 copies sold.For those who love and enjoy Oregon and the photographsof Ray Atkeson, OREGON III is a delight to the eye, a celebra-tion of the state's boundless beauty, and a work of art from itsmost prominent photographer. jacket Photograph: Elowah Falls, with its fern-carpeted for-ests and cascading waters, is part of Oregon's scenic splendor.