Jock Reynolds
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The photos in this book are bold and not retouched. The capture a moment in time for these teens in schools from exclusive to hard-up. Each teen writes a biograhical vignette that accompanies each photograph and they are as varied as the students. Simply looking at the pictures will not tell you who is in Phillips Academy or the public school in Boston. This book resonated with the teens in my library adviory group because their were kids that looked and sounded like them and their friends.
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Comparing his current images of the Earth, such as The Great Salt Lake or Savannah there is that same abstract element, but with a greater visceral punch. In some ways, they remind the viewer of a painting by Pollock or Kline in which the eye is not entirely sure what it's seeing, but an emotion is being conveyed. However, though many are beautiful, the emotion present is a forbidding one. Once you read the captions, you realize quite quickly why this is so. The images are all of man's incursions on the planet.
I'm not a big fan of Abstract Expressionist paintings, but these photographs had a big impact upon me. Perhaps this was because my eye was fooled and they are not abstract; they are literal records of what the surface looks like from the air.
The message of the book is fairly clear. Gowin expressed it fairly clearly in an interview he did, "I'm so conscious now that concern for the plight or the fate of the Earth is something that any grade-school child can tell you about…They sense at some deep level that something is happening, and that it can't go on this way forever."… (mere)