giganova
Well-known
A few days ago I received Thomas Joshua Cooper's "The World's Edge," a photo book about the edge of The Atlantic Basin, with around 200 rich black & white photos, taken with a 4x5 Agfa camera from 1898.
Thomas Joshua Cooper, a self-described explorer, spend most of past 30 years documenting the "edge" of The Atlantic Basin on sometime dangerous expeditions and the resulting book is absolutely fantastic! If you like landscape photography (no human in sight in any of his photos), you're in for a treat!
Other than having a few gripes with the book and it's description, it is an amazing treat. Examples: the publisher and photographer didn't bother to include a map of the location of the photos, which I find a grave omission. So I spent a few hours googling the locations of the ~200 photos based on the captions and created my own map (see below). It revealed that in addition to the many locations that have absolutely nothing to do with the Atlantic (places in California, Idaho, and other places within the continental US), there is no image of the coast of Argentina or Uruguay, and all photos from the southern tip of Chile are actually on the Pacific side of Chile, not the Atlantic. Essentially all of West Africa, as well as France are missing, too. Let's hope Cooper stays in great health to complete his journeys to fill in the gaps!
Here is a great article in The New Yorker if you want to read more.
Thomas Joshua Cooper Map
Thomas Joshua Cooper, a self-described explorer, spend most of past 30 years documenting the "edge" of The Atlantic Basin on sometime dangerous expeditions and the resulting book is absolutely fantastic! If you like landscape photography (no human in sight in any of his photos), you're in for a treat!
Other than having a few gripes with the book and it's description, it is an amazing treat. Examples: the publisher and photographer didn't bother to include a map of the location of the photos, which I find a grave omission. So I spent a few hours googling the locations of the ~200 photos based on the captions and created my own map (see below). It revealed that in addition to the many locations that have absolutely nothing to do with the Atlantic (places in California, Idaho, and other places within the continental US), there is no image of the coast of Argentina or Uruguay, and all photos from the southern tip of Chile are actually on the Pacific side of Chile, not the Atlantic. Essentially all of West Africa, as well as France are missing, too. Let's hope Cooper stays in great health to complete his journeys to fill in the gaps!
Here is a great article in The New Yorker if you want to read more.
Thomas Joshua Cooper Map
charjohncarter
Veteran
Google for once isn't doing ads on its image search:
https://www.google.com/search?q=tho...UMeKwKHUPXBTMQ_AUoAXoECBcQAw&biw=1280&bih=881
This is a monumental work. Beautiful images be sure to look.
https://www.google.com/search?q=tho...UMeKwKHUPXBTMQ_AUoAXoECBcQAw&biw=1280&bih=881
This is a monumental work. Beautiful images be sure to look.
kshapero
South Florida Man
Great stuff, thanks for posting.