The Photography of Carll Goodpasture
| Published Books - Book Proposals - Artist's Books | |||||||||||||||||||
| The Best Spring Ever - Why El Niño Makes The Desert Bloom | |||||||||||||||||||
| Photography by Carll Goodpasture Text by Janice Emily Bowers Edited by Steven L. Hartman Available from: www.cnps.org |
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| The words El Niño make us think of the weather but El Niño is also a biological phenomenon. In the desert Southwest, where El Niño intensifies cool-season rain, wildflowers respond with spectacular displays, boosting the entire ecosystem. Pocket mice and harvester ants, coyotes and desert tortoises all benefit directly or indirectly from the massive input of flowers, greenery, and seeds that typifies the best El Niño years. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Insects and Gardens - In Pursuit of a Garden Ecology | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Text by Eric Grissell Photography by Carll Goodpasture Available from: www.timberpress.com |
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| A garden is a metaphor for the world we live in. If we can't keep our own back yard going, we aren't going to keep the world going either, especially at the rate we are destroying the environment. More than a hundred of Carll Goodpasture's remarkable color photographs reveal the captivating beauty and vital energy that insects bring to the garden, ans illuminate the intricacies of interdependence that characterize a garden's ecology. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| What Flowers Are Really For? | |||||||||||||||||||
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| The beauty of flowers so admired by poets isn't for us its for the birds and the bees that pollinate them. When you think of a flower, what first comes to mind? A painter might visualize color, a poet natural harmony. In our dreams it is said that the Lilly symbolizes purity and the rose feminine beauty. We use flowers as metaphors to declare love and to represent life after death. Looking beyond the poetic and aesthetic attributes of flowers, there is an entirely practical form of life: the flowers biological purpose is the survival and the evolution of its species. Perhaps, at least in our mythology, we have failed to appreciate fully the significance of a flower. Featuring the photography of Carll Goodpasture from the centenial 2000 exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution National Zoological Park entitled "Vanishing Pollinators" Seeking a publisher: contact Carll Goodpasture via e-mail at gro@heining.no |
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| Black Elk Speaks | |||||||||||||||||||
| Of spiritual concerns on the planet today, the most basic issue, in my view, is that of human-earth relationship. A vision of industrial progress has replaced a vision of human-earth relationship. Its consequence is something new on the planet: a magnitude of materiality and a pace of change never before entered into human consciousness. As Thomas Berry points out, the twentieth century has eliminated the terror of the unknown darkness of nature by devastating nature herself. But he, among others, sees a change in the wind predicting an evolution of a society capable once again of experiencing the immediacy of life, a renewal of earth process and a returning to the primordial community of the universe, the earth, and all living things. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Limited edition artist's book printed on demand Text and Photography by Carll Goodpasture With quotations attributed to Black Elk, Crazy Horse, and Chief Seattle 24 Selenium Tone Piezographs printed on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Photo Rag Enquiries welcome: contact Carll Goodpasture via e-mail at gro@heining.no |
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| Terje Vigen's Båt | |||||||||||||||||||
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| In the very first beginning By the still unbounded sea ... Long before the earth had even Thought which forms to give her stones: ... Sat poised beside a tidal pool A man, with his boat and a smile For the girls, by maidenhair shore |
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| Limited edition artist's book printed on demand Photographs by Carll Goodpasture - Poems by Gray Sutherland Carbon Sepia Piezography on Tuscany Fine Art paper Poetry imprinted on Japanese Rice Paper Enquiries welcome: contact Carll Goodpasture via e-mail at gro@heining.no |
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