{"product_id":"land-and-light-in-the-american-west-9781595340047","title":"Land and Light in the American West","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohn Ward has traveled extensively throughout the United States  exploring the countrys national parks  forests  and wilderness  particularly in the West. Inspired by Eliot Porter and Ansel Adams and their vision of the American landscape  Ward began taking pictures in Rocky Mountain National Park. The resulting body of work  spanning three decades  is considered to be amongst the most striking in the field. This is the first major collection of master photographer John Wards gorgeously detailed black-and-white images of the American West. Working exclusively with large-format view cameras  Ward is revered for his technical skills  strong compositional sense  fine detail  and the exceptional quality of his master prints. Ranging in scale from tree bark to the vast emptiness of the desert southwest  the 60 meticulously reproduced black and white duotone photographs in Land and Light in the American West highlight these qualities  providing a visual integration of landscape and ruin  transcendence  and decay  that speak to the powerful forces of nature and culture at work in the West.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45276778397749,"sku":"ByrdShop_1595340041","price":99.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781595340047.jpg?v=1780562603","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/land-and-light-in-the-american-west-9781595340047","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}