{"product_id":"this-land-an-american-portrait-9781477311899","title":"This Land: An American Portrait","description":"\u003cp\u003eJarred by the 9\/11 attacks  photographer Jack Spencer set out in 2003 in hopes of making a few sketches of America in order to gain some clarity on what it meant to be living in this nation at this moment in time. Across thirteen years  forty-eight states  and eighty thousand miles of driving  Spencer created a vast  encompassing portrait of the American landscape that is both contemporary and timeless. This Land presents some one hundred and forty photographs that span the nation  from Key West to Death Valley and Texas to Montana. From the monochromatic and distressed black-and-white images that began the series to the oversaturated color of more recent years  these photographs present a startlingly fresh perspective on America. The breadth of imagery in This Land brings to mind the works of such American masters as Edward Hopper  Grant Wood  Mark Rothko  and Albert Bierstadt  while also evoking the sense of the open roads traveled by Woody Guthrie and Jack Kerouac. Spencers pictorialist vision embraces the sweeping variety of American landscapescoasts  deltas  forests  deserts  mountain ranges  and prairiesand iconic places such as Mount Rushmore and Wounded Knee. Jon Meacham writes in the foreword that Spencers most surprising images are of a country that I suspect many of us believed had disappeared. The fading churches  the roaming bison  the running horses: Spencer has found a mythical world  except it is real  and it is now  and it is ours.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665875492917,"sku":"ByrdShop_1477311890","price":54.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781477311899.jpg?v=1782411813","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/this-land-an-american-portrait-9781477311899","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}