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Mississippi River: Headwaters and Heartland to Delta and Gulf

English

By (author): David Freese Sarah Kennel

Americas most important and iconic river has many familiar names: The Mighty Mississippi, Old Blue, and Ole Man River. In Mississippi River: Headwaters and Heartland to Delta and Gulf, the third book of his trilogy on North American Waters, David Freese takes us on a captivating visual journey from its source at Lake Itasca in Minnesota 2,552 miles south to the Gulf of Mexico. Freeses photographs open our eyes to encompass a wide diversity of industry and farmland, cities and towns, landscapes and wildlife, all the while revealing the constant flow of goods, grain, and fuel, up and down the countrys major shipping artery.

The photographs illustrate the ongoing dangers posed by increased flooding and the protective measures taken by the U. S. Army Corp of Engineers to try and keep a restless river in check. There are environmental concerns, ranging from habitat loss to agricultural and pesticide runoff, and the legacy of slavery and the removal of native peoples persist. Its a river that reveals a complicated past, present, and future as humankind attempts to control nature. American history bends and turns in its waters.

The noted author Simon Winchester has written an arresting essay that provides one of the most compelling descriptions and histories yet written about a river that is so much more than a familiar name. The foreword by Sarah Kennel, Curator of Photography at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, places Freeses images into the canon of landscape photography as a magnificent body of work that documents, critiques, honors, and sanctifies Americas most treasured river. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 305 x 305mm
  • Publication Date: 10 Jul 2020
  • Publisher: George F. Thompson
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781938086731

About David FreeseSarah Kennel

David Freese has spent the last sixteen years photographing North Americas major waters resulting in a trilogy of books: West Coast: Bering to Baja (2012) East Coast: Arctic to Tropic (2016) and Mississippi River: Headwaters and Heartland to Delta and Gulf (2020). His prints are in many collections including the Center for Creative Photography Cleveland Museum of Art Denver Art Museum Haggerty Museum of Art and Library of Congress and his photographs have appeared in Communication Arts Photo District News Photo Insider Polaroid International Popular Photography Smithsonian Air and Space and View Camera magazines. Simon Winchester was born in North London England in 1944 and was raised there. After receiving an undergraduate degree in geology from Oxford University in 1963 he worked as a field geologist in Africa for a Canadian mining company before switching careers in 1967 and becoming a journalist for The Guardian and a frequent commentator on and contributor to BBC radio. Over the years Winchester has written for Smithsonian National Geographic and Conde Nast Traveler magazines and he is the author of more than twenty best-selling books including The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Harper Perennial 1999) The Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (Harper Perennial 2001) Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded (Harper Perennial 2003)A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 (Harper Perennial 2005) and Atlantic: Great Sea Battles Heroic Discoveries Titanic Storms and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories (Harper Perennial 2010). In 2006 Winchester was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for services to journalism and literature. His Website iswww.simonwinchester.com. Sarah Kennel joined the High Museum in Atlanta in 2019 as the Donald and Marilyn Keough Family Curator of Photography. She previously served as the Byrne Family Curator of Photography at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem Massachusetts and as a curator in the Department of Photographs at National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.

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