Bøger udgivet af George F. Thompson

Human beings in the 21st century hunger, often unconsciously, for places to live that are more than efficient, economical machines. This book offers sound and innovative guidance to both citizens and planning professionals who seek to transform public spaces into sites that answer not only practical needs but also spiritual and humanitarian needs.

Lynne Buchanan's Changing Waters is a stunning collection of photographs that document the beauty, diversity, and complexity of Florida's inland waters and the effects of pollution, population growth, and climate change on Florida's springs and inland and coastal waters.

A powerful contemporary look at the Los Angeles River using nineteenth-century technology

A newly revised and updated edition of a groundbreaking book that gives an unique view into the lives of the Oglala Lakota people on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

An inspired documentary project focused on preserving, through photography and oral history recordings, the cultural and environmental remains of southeastern Louisiana's fishing communities. Fish Town includes 137 colour photographs taken between 2012 and 2017. Interspersed throughout are text narratives transcribed from audio recordings.

¿Break Boundary¿ refers to the transformative point at which any system suddenly and irrevocably changes from its original state into something new. Coined by Kenneth E. Boulding in 1963, the term serves as the underlying metaphor for the photographs of Jenee Mateer. In her original works of art, the horizon that divides land, water, and sky shifts and multiplies producing bands of varied colors and luminosity that transform the natural landscape into imaginative ¿waterscapes¿ and challenge our understanding of photography. Reminiscent of the abstract paintings of Mark Rothko and the photographic seascapes of Hiroshi Sugimoto and New Mexican landscapes of Edward Weston, Mateer¿s images are layered photographs of the natural world assembled to suggest imaginary places where light, water, land and sky coalesce into rhythmic patterns of shimmering opalescence or luscious color. Break Boundary features 34 of Mateer¿s waterscapes and also includes her opening essay about the work and two poems by the artist, The World Is Water and The Sky Is Lemonlime, that separate the first series of images from the second series and offer a deeper look into the artist¿s thoughts about the work. In the concluding essay by Francine Weiss, curator of the Newport Art Museum, Weiss writes: ¿From surface to self, Jenee Mateer takes the viewer on a journey from one psychological and spiritual state to another. In Mateer¿s ¿waterscapes,¿ the conventional or anticipated boundaries between land, water, and sky begin to vanish; horizons multiply and join; and the break boundary emerges.

Vietnam is an ancient and beautiful land, with a deep history of occupational conflict that remains an enigma in Americans¿ collective memory. It is still easy to forget that Vietnam is a country and not a war, even as America¿s role in Vietnam inflamed and divided the American citizenry in ways that are still evident today. It is as if Vietnam¿s civil war resurrected our own. And if you are a Vietnam War veteran or a family member of a vet, it¿s worse, because, even after a half-century, many of the wounds won¿t heal. What do you do when you have given up on forgetting? Chuck Forsman is one of a sizable number of aging Vietnam vets who have found deep satisfaction in revisiting Vietnam, supporting charities, orphanages, and clinics, doing volunteer work and more¿anything to redeem what the U.S. military did there. He is also a renowned painter and photographer who depicts places and environments in ways that become unforgettable visual experiences for the contemporary viewer.Lost in Vietnam chronicles a journey, not a country. They were taken on visits averaging two months each and two-year intervals over a decade. Forsman traveled largely by motorbike throughout the country¿south, central, and north¿sharing his experiences through amazing photographs of Vietnam¿s lands and people. His visual journey of one such veteran¿s twofold quest: the one for redemption and understanding, and the other to make art. The renowned Le Ly Hayslip introduces the book and sets the table for Forsman¿s incredible sojourn.

First published in 1990, this updated and enlarged edition of Challenge of the Big Trees stands as the new definitive history of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. Located in the southern Sierra Nevada of California, these twin parks, preserve an astounding sweep of natural and cultural resources.

The Joshua Tree National Monument was officially established in 1936, and when the area later was expanded in 1994, it became Joshua Tree National Park. Joshua Tree National Park, even with its often-conflicting land uses, is more popular today than ever, serving more than one million visitors per year who find the desert to be a place worthy of respect and preservation.

An important and strikingly beautiful new study of the sacred and ancient Hindu practice of threshold drawing (Casebound set of two hardcover volumes)

How does a photographer learn to see? How does he create his own visual language-as unique as a fingerprint and as inimitable as the voice of a great writer?

Winner of the J. B. Jackson Prize for the Best Book in Cultural Geography!

A poignant memorial to the civilian victims of Colombia's ongoing, armed conflict in words, photographs and installations.

The painter Andrei Kushnir has spent years travelling throughout every corner of the Shenandoah Valley, capturing its myriad landscapes and architectural features. The paintings collected here highlight Kushnir's rare ability to paint any landscape before him - pastoral or industrial, recreational or social, rural or urban, riparian or agricultural - all the while working out in the elements.

Nominated for a 2014 Book of the Year Award in Nonfiction from ForeWord Reviews!

Whether one has lived in or visited the West for an entire lifetime, or whether one is coming to the West for the very first time, all readers of this book will find in Sutton's photographs a magisterial guide to what makes the West so unique, so special.

On June 6, 1912, an unforgettable natural event occurred: the largest volcanic eruption on Earth during the twentieth century. In size comparable to Indonesia's Krakatau (Krakatoa) in 1883, one must go back 2,000 years to the north island of New Zealand to find as large a release of rhyolite magma.

In viewing the borders and boundaries that exist between human settlement and the natural environment, Laurie Brown takes us on a modern journey on a well-worn path in human history: the pushing out of the city, initially beyond city walls of ancient Rome and then medieval Europe and today beyond political boundaries into the undeveloped frontier.

No photographer until David Freese has explored the various and wondrous landscapes along the Pacific Ocean in such depth, making this the first book to look comprehensively at what makes the natural beauty of this particular coast so memorable.

During the 1970s, a lot of glass-and-steel, boxlike buildings were going up in New York City. David Anderson realized that the architecturally elaborate and stylistic buildings of the late nineteenth century through the 1930s that defined Wall Street would never be made again

Originally published in 2011 by Hudson Hills Press and now available through George F. Thompson Publishing!

"David Wharton traveled with his camera and unique vision to the small towns of the American South and created amazing images that evoke a Zen-like stillness amid the visual tension of a rapidly changing townscape. ...the photographs in Small Town South make us think deeply about the world that Wharton sees in his mind and captures with his camera."