Happy, happy day! Walked by a book store while doing errands today. The chances of a used book store carrying Wade Davis The Lost Amazon - The Photographic Journey of Richard Evans Schultes is always slim b/c its a valuable and out-of-print book. The chances of it being in the window of the store in my neighbourhood as I walk by, rarer still. The chance that the book store owner doesnt know its value, and sells it to me for ....SIXTEEN DOLLARS!!!.... is pretty freakin crazy! Sorry book store. Wasnt going to insist you charge me more for it. Ive been waiting to get my hands on this book for a long time! Wade Davis / Schultes / Amazon River / Amazon culture / ethnobotany / rare photo book enthusiasts will understand!!! Davis writes of Schultes and his photography in the preface...In a more symbolic sense, the Rolleiflex by definintion demanded that the photographer (he was well over 6 feet tall), in composing and exposing an image, literally bow to the subject of the photograph, a gesture that in the setting of the Amazon, with its history of Indians being violated and abuses, transformed the photographic act from one of aggression to one of engagement and humility. Having slipped away from the confines of his own world, he experienced through multiple lenses - his eyes, the delicately honed glass of his camera, the visionary realm of the magic plants - an exotic land on the cusp of change. He was the right person at the right place at the right time to accomplish greatness and leave in his wake a remarkable photographic legacy. Schultes lived in the northwest Amazon between 1941 and 1953.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 20:13:39 +0000
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