Author: Gowin, E.
Title: Mariposas Nocturnas: Moths of Central and South America; A Study in Beauty and Diversity
Description: Princeton University Press 2017 144, 51 col plates, col + b/w illus. 365x290mm. HB. NEW. . A stunning portrait of the nocturnal moths of Central and South America by famed American photographer Emmet Gowin. American photographer Emmet Gowin (b. 1941) is best known for his portraits of his wife, Edith, and their family, as well as for his images documenting the impact of human activity upon landscapes around the world. For the past fifteen years, he has been engaged in an equally profound project on a different scale, capturing the exquisite beauty of more than one thousand species of nocturnal moths in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, and Panama (on 51 plates, each with 25 moths illustrated). These stunning color portraits present the insects—many of which may never have been photographed as living specimens before, and some of which may not be seen again—arrayed in typologies of twenty-five per sheet. The moths are photographed alive, in natural positions and postures, and set against a variety of backgrounds taken from the natural world and images from art history.. [9780691176895]

Keywords: Moths; Heterocera; Lepidoptera; Photography; Art; RESConsign 2017-11; South America; America


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