Eirik Johnson: Sawdust Mountain

by Tess Gallagher

Other authorsElizabeth A. Brown (Foreword), Eirik Johnson (Photographer)
Hardcover, 2009

Call number

NWC 634.9 JOH

Collection

Publication

Aperture (2009), Edition: 1, 143 pages

Description

A culmination of four years of photographing throughout Oregon, Washington, and Northern California, Sawdust Mountain focuses on the tenuous relationship between industries reliant upon natural resources and the communities they support. Timber and salmon are the bedrock of a regional Northwest identity, but the environmental impact of these declining industries has been increasingly at odds with the contemporary ideal of sustainability. In this, his second book, Eirik Johnson reveals a landscape imbued with an uncertain futureno longer the region of boomtowns built upon the riches of massive old-growth forests. Johnson, a Seattle native, describes his photographs as a melancholy love letter of sorts, my own personal ramblings. Through this poetic approach, Sawdust Mountain records a region affected by historic economic complexities and, by extension, one aspect of our fraught relationship with the environment in the twenty-first century.… (more)

Pages

144

ISBN

1597110914 / 9781597110914
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