On the Plains by Peter Brown, introduction by Kathleen Norris Peter Brown's photographs of the open spaces at America's heart reveal a landscape both beautiful and powerful, meditative and dynamic, vast yet intimate. When Peter Brown began to photograph the Great Plains, he started a journey
that would take him over a dozen years and many thousands of miles to
complete. Brown's photographs make a careful study of the land and sky of
the Plains, and of the people who inhabit its towns and cities, showing us
the endless variations of color, light, mood, and character. In Brown's
portraits we see the Plains in all its seasons, an ever-changing landscape
of extremes, where human existence is at once fragile and resilient.
These provocative images reveal both the stunning drama and subtle charms
of the land and people of this vast swath of America which includes the
Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, Utah,
Texas, and New Mexico. "It is this America, in all its otherness, that Peter Brown has presented
to us, with its complexity and simplicity, its banality and beauty, its
ordinary grace." -- Kathleen Norris, from the Introduction Peter Brown is a photographer living in Houston, Texas. he is the author
of Seasons of Light. Kathleen Norris is the author of Dakota: A Spiritual
Geography, The Cloister Walk, and Amazing Grace.
Published in association with W.W. Norton. |