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A Shadow Falls | 
| Authors: Nick Brandt, Peter Singer, Vicki Goldberg
Publisher: Abrams
Category: Book
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 1142
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 132
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.2
Dimensions (in): 15.4 x 12.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 081095415X
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.32
EAN: 9780810954151
ASIN: 081095415X
Publication Date: September 1, 2009
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Product Description
In A Shadow Falls, which features fifty-eight recent images in stunning, oversized tritone plates, Nick Brandt continues his ambitious and ongoing photographic project to memorialize the vanishing natural grandeur of East Africa. Brandt’s wide-screen panoramas of animals and landscapes capture an epic vision of Africa that has not been seen before. His iconic portraits of its majestic animals are filled with an empathy usually reserved for human subjects.
From the opening images in A Shadow Falls, of a verdant world filled with multitudes of animals, to the closing images of small bands of creatures moving across a parched, dusty earth, Brandt portrays a mythic Africa struggling against tragic forces. In years to come, we will look back at these powerful photographs and wonder why humanity did not do more to preserve this rare corner of earthly paradise.
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 A Shadow Falls November 18, 2009
Kay (Franklin, PA United States)
I thought the book had beautifull pictures in it. They were so amazing. This book will be around for generations in my family.
This is a real keeper November 15, 2009
N. Sporek
Every page in this book is stunning almost to the point of being hypnotic. I highly recommend it for your personal collection or as a gift for anybody that likes photography or that just appreciates raw beauty. It might even be worth buying two copies, one for cutting the pages out and framing them and the other to keep.
Wow - amazing wildlife photos October 19, 2009
Lewis N Clark (California)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Beautiful, poignant black and white wildlife photos that capture amazing scenes and moments in time. You'll have this on your coffee table for a long time!
Terrible packing of the book October 17, 2009
Peter F. Steinhauer (Hong Kong)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The book is great and just what I expected from Nick Brandt. However the packing of the book was beyond terrible and the book arrived damaged and bent. It came in a package that was far bigger than the book and with bubble wrapping only on one side of the book, thus why it was crushed and damaged.
Unsurpassed photography. An intimate encounter. October 17, 2009
David Morrison
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I am not the most eloquent of people, but Nick Brandt's work tends to make me wax more lyrical than anything else does. My wife bought me his first book a few years ago, and I literally had tears in my eyes looking through the pages. I thought that Nick would be unable to top that book, but I was wrong.
A Shadow Falls is a masterpiece of photography, and brings those who look at these images closer to the soul of the animals than any Nat Geo show ever could. Each image feels like an intimate encounter, like it's just you, and the animal, alone in the wild. You can almost sense that they know you are looking at them. They are allowing you to be so close. It's personal.
Nick does not use zoom lenses, or telephotos, so all the images bring you right up where he was. The startling detail of the king of the beasts, the lion, or the majestic herds of elephants making their treks in search of water, portrayed in a manner that tells a story. They're not just photos, they're so much more.
As a musician (and part time photographer), I always ask people what 5 albums would they want to have on their iPod if they were stranded on a desert island. By the same token, I know what book I would want by my side should I ever find myself in that predicament.
A Shadow Falls.
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