{"product_id":"ancient-trees-portraits-of-time-9780789211958","title":"Ancient Trees: Portraits of Time","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaptivating black-and-white photographs of the worlds most majestic ancient trees.  Beth Moons fourteen-year quest to photograph ancient trees has taken her across the United States  Europe  Asia  the Middle East  and Africa. Some of her subjects grow in isolation  on remote mountainsides  private estates  or nature preserves; others maintain a proud  though often precarious  existence in the midst of civilization. All  however  share a mysterious beauty perfected by age and the power to connect us to a sense of time and nature much greater than ourselves. It is this beauty  and this power  that Moon captures in her remarkable photographs. This handsome volume presents nearly seventy of Moons finest tree portraits as full-page duotone plates. The pictured trees include the tangled  hollow-trunked yewssome more than a thousand years oldthat grow in English churchyards; the baobabs of Madagascar  called upside-down trees because of the curious disproportion of their giant trunks and modest branches; and the fantastical dragons-blood trees  red-sapped and umbrella-shaped  that grow only on the island of Socotra  off the Horn of Africa. Moons narrative captions describe the natural and cultural history of each individual tree  while Todd Forrest  vice president for horticulture and living collections at The New York Botanical Garden  provides a concise introduction to the biology and preservation of ancient trees. An essay by the critic Steven Brown defines Moons unique place in a tradition of tree photography extending from William Henry Fox Talbot to Sally Mann  and explores the challenges and potential of the tree as a subject for art.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651949584437,"sku":"ByrdShop_0789211955","price":39.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780789211958.jpg?v=1781847055","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/ancient-trees-portraits-of-time-9780789211958","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}