AUTHOR EVENT - STEPHEN STROM: EARTH FORMS

December 10, 2009 - 7:00pm

STEPHEN STROM: EARTH FORMS      7PM

Photographer Stephen Strom describes the evolution of his artistic vision as exhibited in Earth Forms, a book of his photographs which compresses vast desert spaces and invites viewers to look deeply into what light and earth together form. For the poet Joy Harjo, “the(se) photographs are not separate from the land or larger than it. Rather, they gracefully and respectfully exist inside it. Breathe with it.” Slideshow, talk, and signing.

Earth Forms (Hardcover)

By Stephen Strom (Photographer), Albert Stewart (Afterword by), Greg McNamee (Introduction by)
$45.00
ISBN-13: 9781904587743
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Dewi Lewis Publishing, 09/01/2009

Stephen Strom has photographed in the southwestern desert lands of the United States for more than 20 years and this book brings together, for the first time, a selection of his most powerful and memorable images.

Strom brings to this landscape the sensibilities of an astronomer who has lived in the desert for almost two decades. His photographs capture a land shaped both by the millennial forces of prehistory and also by yesterday's cloudburst. His images have the power to compress vast desert spaces in an illusion of intimacy and comprehension, presenting undulations of colour and form which appear reimagined in a light that at once penetrates and sculpts.

Published in 2009, the book Earth Forms, with essays by Gregory McNamee and Albert Stewart, is the first fine art quality monograph of Stephen's photographs. To assure images of the highest quality, Stephen was present at EBS in Verona, Italy when the final proofs were made. He and Dewi Lewis, the publisher, certified the adjustments made before each page was printed.

Location: 
Changing Hands Bookstore
6428 S McClintock Dr
Tempe, Arizona 85283