West from the Columbia : views at the river mouth / Robert Adams.

Main entry:

Adams, Robert, 1937-

Title & Author:

West from the Columbia : views at the river mouth / Robert Adams.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Description:

79, [1] pages : chiefly illustrations ; 32 cm

Summary:

West from the Columbia is an essay in photographs about the meeting of a great river with the sea. The book is at once a celebration of beauty at the ocean's edge and a meditation on our relationship with it. In the pictures the sea mirrors every condition through which our lives pass - fresh mornings, calm days, fog, storms, and night - and as in life, little is explained. Driftwood next to our feet is as mysterious as is the ship on the horizon. Lewis and Clark arrived here, the farthest point in their exploration, in 1805. Report of their journey was instrumental in opening the American West for development. Since then we have destroyed large and diverse forests that once stood along the Columbia, and polluted the river with waste from cities, paper mills, and the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Though we now know that even the sea itself is finite - nothing can be hidden - we continue to look for hope at the ocean's shore. Might we be embraced, like the river, by so perfect a light? Robert Adams is fond of an entry in one of Theodore Roethke's journals - "I see what I believe."

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ISBN:

0893816426
9780893816421

Subject:

Adams, Robert (Photograph)
Estuaries Northwest, Pacific Pictorial works.
Artists' books New York (State) 20th century Specimens.
Livres d'artistes New York (État) 20e siècle Spécimens.
Estuaries
Bildband
Landschaftsfotografie
Mündung
Columbia River Estuary (Or. and Wash.) Pictorial works.
Pacific Coast (Or.) Pictorial works.
Pacific Coast (Wash.) Pictorial works.
Columbia, Estuaire de la (Or. et Wash.) Ouvrages illustrés.
Pacifique, Côte du (Or.) Ouvrages illustrés.
Pacifique, Côte du (Wash.) Ouvrages illustrés.
Oregon Pacific Coast
Pacific Northwest
United States Columbia River Estuary
Washington (State) Pacific Coast
Columbia River

Form/genre:

Views (visual works)
artists' books (books)
Illustrated works
Bildband.
Artists' books.
Artists' books New York (State) 20th century.
Livres d'artistes.

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 111473
Call No.: IDM TR140.A216.5; ID:96-B1944
Status: Available

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