Photographer: Robert Farber
Introduction: Lee Sheridan

Publisher/Date: Merrell (2004, 1st)

Format/Condition: New hardcover book in fine condition. No Jacket. 208 pp., 30 color and 70 quadtone illustrations, 9½ x 11 inches."

Description:
• Stunning album of lyrical and nostalgic photographs by the award-winning master of mood Robert Farber, whose previous book, Natural Beauty: Farber Nudes was an international bestseller
• Photographs reflect the rich diversity of the life and landscape of America, from rural Montana to the Manhattan skyline at dawn; from a New Mexico cowboy to the abandoned lobby of a small-town mainstreet hotel; from an old-fashioned boxing ring to an old De Soto automobile in Maine – all in Farber’s trademark painterly style
• Special section offers unique insights into Farber’s working methods and techniques, with guidelines on how to achieve the ‘Farber effect’
• Major publicity campaigns in the US and UK, including launch parties, signings, lectures, workshops and gallery shows

These photographs by Robert Farber take an interior journey as they capture glimpses of the American landscape from the past three decades. Grouped according to the stages of the mythic journey laid out by Joseph Campbell—departure, the passage through, arrival, and return—the images take on an iconic quality. Farber offers grainy urban views that could have come from any time in the last century and also a sharply focused sepia image of a steer skull on an ancient pine wall, a sculptural study of a chrome encrusted Cadillac tail fin and a five-cent weight machine standing alone in softly saturated colors. A commercial and fashion photographer, Farber is known for his sensual, glowing images of a world half in dream and half in memory. His photographic collections include his own technical notes on the images.