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books:

Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field

3 reviews
Anne Whiston Spirn

University Of Chicago Press, 2008

Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field
As someone who used iconic Lange photos in my American Studies classes for years, this book in one I wish I had had BEFORE I retired last year! Their are photos I hadn't seen, in areas I didn't know she worked and, most importantly, her 'reports from the field'. These notes and extended captions give tremendous background to the photos and would be very interesting to students.

The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design

1 review
Anne Whiston Spirn

Basic Books, 1985

The Granite Garden
I am somewhat new to reading books such as this for pleasure, but I read what I think will interest me. I was thrown at first by the title thinking that the book was going to be about hard scaping. Instead this book was a real eye opener to a lot of things we take for granted every day. Chapters titled soil, water, and air open up the reader to understand all that is envolved in making a ...

Language of Landscape

2 reviews
Anne Whiston Spirn

Yale University Press, 2000

The Nowadays City Health in Urban Processes.
The Language of Landscape regads to a very important subject - the new values that has composed the urban drawing - which has contributed a lot for the enviromental health of the nowadays cities. Finding new ways to focus on the physic enviroment of the urban areas, Spirn offers a philosophic and conceptual base for the Urban Drawing, while illustrates, with real examples, the practical ...