The Interior Landscape

A deeply thoughtful and inspiring collectionof essays about visual expression, art, creativity, and a life in photographyPhotographer, teacher, and author Guy Tal hasbeen photographing the landscape for more than 30 years, and in that time hehas also been consistently contributing to the literature of photography, writing not about the technical aspects of the photograph--the gear, theexposure details, the "secrets to getting a great shot"--but about the deepertopics of visual expression, creativity, art, and life.Building on the legacy of his previousbest-selling books More Than a Rock and Another DayNot Wasted, as well as his work as a regular contributor to LensWork and OnLandscape magazines, The Interior Landscape is acollection of more than 60 brief essays, packaged in a beautiful hardcoverformat and illustrated throughout with Guy's stunning photography.Organized into four parts, Guy discusses: - Creativity and expression as the mostsignificant aspects of making art- The controversial and tenuous relationshipbetween photography (by design a medium for objective representation) and art(by definition the subjective expressions of the imagination of artists)- How he has formed a relationship with, andfound meaning in, the natural landscape, and how he expresses these meanings inhis photographs- Lessons learned from more than three decadesof practicing expressive landscape photography The Interior Landscape is for anyone interested in, as the titlesuggests, turning inward to explore creativity, art, expression, and thelandscape. It is sure to illuminate, educate, and inspire you on yourphotographic journey.