Michael Lundgren: Transfigurations
An atavistic contemplation of the origin, embracing photography’s duality, veracity, and transformation.
Photography by Michael Lundgren
Essay by Rebecca Solnit
Afterword by William Jenkins
Hardcover
14 x 11 inches
64 pages / 40 images
Trade ISBN: 9781934435106 — $50
Signed ISBN: 9798890180353 — $55
Rare: $150
Limited edition of this book available HERE.
Throughout its history, landscape photography has transitioned from scientific exploration to the idealization of nature and the spectacle of human progress. Lost along the way was a sense that photographs of the land can speak to an ecstatic experience.
These photographs are a lust for the primitive. They seek to understand beauty and terror, which are inseparable. In the desert, nothing remains static; even the rocks move. The landscape is discernible only because of the presence of what is fundamentally absent. Myth and metaphor remain unfixed, open.
