Product Details
Hardcover
80 pages
Umbrage Editions
Published 2003
Mark Strand, from the foreword
"Sally Gall’s photographs represent a brilliant accommodation between the obvious and the hidden, the known and the unknown." --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Nature Conservancy Magazine
"[She] not only reveals the contours of these natural landscapes but also gives expression to...landscapes of the human soul." --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Book Description
A photographer who has always sought the inexplicable in nature, Sally Gall finds beauty in things terrestrial, a beauty defined and enhanced by its opposite: the unsettling, the precipitous, the fearful. Here, in a remarkable series of images of the underworld taken over a four-year period in Mexico, Belize, Southeast Asia, the U.S., and Europe, she explores a spiritual realm heightened by the history of early human passage, myth, and spiritual transcendence. In Subterranea, time is frozen in a fantastic and other-worldly architecture: crumbling walls, stalactites and stalagmites coated with icy limestone, and calcite formations gloaming in the darkness. With each image, Gall draws us deeper into a world forgotten. Mark Strand, the distinguished poet, essayist, novelist, and former Poet Laureate, contributes an evocative essay addressing the arresting beauty of darkness, and the iconic power of Gall's photographs and the underworld they depict. Nan Richardson, editor and author, explores the mythological resonance that caves evoke throughout time and culture, from Mayan mysteries to the Platonic shadow world. |
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