David Doubilet: Water, Light, Time: Postcards
List Price:
Our Price: $13.21
You Save: $6.74 (34%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $12.80 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Photographer: David DoubiletEdition: Cards
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-06-24
ISBN: 0714842273
Number of pages: 60
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Summary of David Doubilet: Water, Light, Time: Postcards
This title presents 45 postcards illustrated with images from David Doubilet's book "Water Light Time". Sharks, shipwrecks, rare and unusual species, exotic vegetation, startling and vivid colours, Doubilet's pictures aim to inspire awe at both the wonder of the undersea world and the skill of the photographer. This is a selection of 15 (3 copies each) of the most beautiful (and usable as postcards) images from his brightly coloured and sometimes dangerous submarine world.When David Doubilet was a child, he photographed swimmers in the waters off of New Jersey. Water Light Time is a collection of images that capture the underwater magnificence that seized the photographer's imagination in childhood and spurred a lifelong fascination. Underwater plant life floating like snakes, bright blue water filled with schools of silver fish, a diver immersed in a throng of bubbling yellow jellyfish, a close-up of pink and white sea anemones looking all the world like a floating bouquet of flowers--each image in this book is exquisitely photographed with preternaturally clear colors, full of detail and depth. Some images toy with perspective, creating surreal tableaux as a crustacean leg pokes out of the yellow-green water to appear almost as large as a nearby tree.
With a career that started as a National Geographic photographer in 1972, Doubilet has a lifetime of experience from which to make such a marvelous meditation on this otherworld that is vaguely familiar to most readers only through pictures and visits to aquariums. Doubilet captures what must surely be his own awe at the uniqueness of being a human in this nonhuman environment, and the reader can marvel at both the lushness of life in the water and at the beauty of the photographs themselves, which dominate almost all of the book's 240 pages. --Jennifer Cohen
Nature & Wildlife Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Nature & Wildlife Books
Michigan: Our Land, Our Water, Our Heritageby The Nature Conservancy in Michigan
University of Michigan Press/Regional; Published: 2008-05-06; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $5.21
Price in other shops:
Full Moonby Michael Light
Knopf; Published: 2002-11-05; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $21.99
Price in other shops:
Ray Mears Vanishing World: A Life of Bushcraftby Ray Mears
Hodder & Stoughton; Published: 2009-04-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $65.24
Of Woods and Water: A Photographic Journey across Michigan (Quarry Books)by Ron Leonetti, Christopher Jordan
Quarry Books; Published: 2008-10-03; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $22.97
Price in other shops:
Captive Beautyby Frank Noelker, Jane Goodall, Nigel Rothfels
University of Illinois Press; Published: 2004-05-06; Hardcover; Book
Price in other shops:
Prairiescapes: PHOTOGRAPHS (Visions of Illinois)by Larry Kanfer
University of Illinois Press; Published: 1987-10-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $19.59
Price in other shops:
Among Giants: A Life with Whalesby Charles "Flip" Nicklin, K. M. Kostyal
University Of Chicago Press; Published: 2011-04-15; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $26.09
Price in other shops:
Australia Wide: A Panoramic Viewby Ken Duncan
Collins Pub San Francisco; Published: 1991-11; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $129.36
Old Man on His Back : Portrait of a Prairie Landscapeby Sharon Butala
HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited; Published: 2002; Hardcover; Book
The Underwater Photographer, Fourth Editionby MARTIN EDGE
Focal Press; Published: 2010-02-18; Paperback; Book
Best price: $17.83
Price in other shops: