{"id":518585,"date":"2010-04-06T15:02:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T19:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nybooks.com\/post\/501235904"},"modified":"2010-04-06T15:02:36","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T19:02:36","slug":"slide-show-portraits-from-a-parched-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/518585","title":{"rendered":"Slide Show: Portraits from a Parched Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"thumbnails\" style=\"margin-top: 18px;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.nybooks.com\/slideshows\/brandt\/fullscreen\/brandt1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[brandt]\" title=\"Elephant drinking, Amboseli, 2007; photograph by Nick Brandt from <i>A Shadow Falls<\/i>&#8220;><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.nybooks.com\/slideshows\/brandt\/thumb\/brandt1.jpg\" class=\"thumb\" alt=\"\" title=\"Elephant drinking, Amboseli, 2007\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.nybooks.com\/slideshows\/brandt\/fullscreen\/brandt2.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[brandt]\" title=\"Rhinos on Lake Nakuru, 2007; photograph by Nick Brandt from <i>A Shadow Falls<\/i>&#8220;><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.nybooks.com\/slideshows\/brandt\/thumb\/brandt2.jpg\" class=\"thumb\" alt=\"\" title=\"Rhinos on Lake Nakuru, 2007\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.nybooks.com\/slideshows\/brandt\/fullscreen\/brandt3.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[brandt]\" title=\"Baboons in profile, Amboseli, 2007; photograph by Nick Brandt from <i>A Shadow Falls<\/i>&#8220;><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.nybooks.com\/slideshows\/brandt\/thumb\/brandt3.jpg\" class=\"thumb\" alt=\"\" title=\"Baboons in profile, Amboseli, 2007\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.nybooks.com\/slideshows\/brandt\/fullscreen\/brandt4.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[brandt]\" title=\"Buffalo group portrait, Amboseli, 2006; photograph by Nick Brandt from <i>A Shadow Falls<\/i>&#8220;><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.nybooks.com\/slideshows\/brandt\/thumb\/brandt4.jpg\" class=\"thumb\" alt=\"\" title=\"Buffalo group portrait, Amboseli, 2006\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.nybooks.com\/slideshows\/brandt\/fullscreen\/brandt5.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[brandt]\" title=\"Gorilla on rock, Parc National des Volcans, 2008; photograph by Nick Brandt from <i>A Shadow Falls<\/i>&#8220;><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.nybooks.com\/slideshows\/brandt\/thumb\/brandt5.jpg\" class=\"thumb\" alt=\"\" title=\"Gorilla on rock, Parc National des Volcans, 2008\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.nybooks.com\/slideshows\/brandt\/fullscreen\/brandt6.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[brandt]\" title=\"Cheetah and cubs lying on rock, Serengeti, 2007; photograph by Nick Brandt from <i>A Shadow Falls<\/i>&#8220;><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.nybooks.com\/slideshows\/brandt\/thumb\/brandt6.jpg\" class=\"thumb\" alt=\"\" title=\"Cheetah and cubs lying on rock, Serengeti, 2007\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.nybooks.com\/slideshows\/brandt\/fullscreen\/brandt7.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[brandt]\" title=\"Zebras turning heads, Ngorongoro Crater, 2005; photograph by Nick Brandt from <i>A Shadow Falls<\/i>&#8220;><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.nybooks.com\/slideshows\/brandt\/thumb\/brandt7.jpg\" class=\"thumb\" alt=\"\" title=\"Zebras turning heads, Ngorongoro Crater, 2005\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.nybooks.com\/slideshows\/brandt\/fullscreen\/brandt8.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[brandt]\" title=\"Giraffes in evening light, Masai Mara, 2006; photograph by Nick Brandt from <i>A Shadow Falls<\/i>&#8220;><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.nybooks.com\/slideshows\/brandt\/thumb\/brandt8.jpg\" class=\"thumb\" alt=\"\" title=\"Giraffes in evening light, Masai Mara, 2006\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.nybooks.com\/slideshows\/brandt\/fullscreen\/brandt9.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[brandt]\" title=\"Lion before storm, Masai Mara, 2006; photograph by Nick Brandt from <i>A Shadow Falls<\/i>&#8220;><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.nybooks.com\/slideshows\/brandt\/thumb\/brandt9.jpg\" class=\"thumb\" alt=\"\" title=\"Lion before storm, Masai Mara, 2006\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.nybooks.com\/slideshows\/brandt\/fullscreen\/brandt10.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[brandt]\" title=\"Lioness with feeding cub, Masai Mara, 2007; photograph by Nick Brandt from <i>A Shadow Falls<\/i>&#8220;><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.nybooks.com\/slideshows\/brandt\/thumb\/brandt10.jpg\" class=\"thumb\" alt=\"\" title=\"Lioness with feeding cub, Masai Mara, 2007\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.nybooks.com\/slideshows\/brandt\/fullscreen\/brandt11.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[brandt]\" title=\"Lions head to head, Masai Mara, 2008; photograph by Nick Brandt from <i>A Shadow Falls<\/i>&#8220;><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.nybooks.com\/slideshows\/brandt\/thumb\/brandt11.jpg\" class=\"thumb\" alt=\"\" title=\"Lions head to head, Masai Mara, 2008\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.nybooks.com\/slideshows\/brandt\/fullscreen\/brandt12.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[brandt]\" title=\"Abandoned ostrich egg, Amboseli, 2007; photograph by Nick Brandt from <i>A Shadow Falls<\/i>&#8220;><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.nybooks.com\/slideshows\/brandt\/thumb\/brandt12.jpg\" class=\"thumb\" alt=\"\" title=\"Abandoned ostrich egg, Amboseli, 2007\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Nick Brandt has been photographing the wild animals of East Africa for the past ten years; these images are from his new collection,<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abramsbooks.com\/Books\/A_Shadow_Falls-9780810954151.html\">A Shadow Falls<\/a>, <em>out now from Abrams.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- more --><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMy images are unashamedly idyllic and romantic, a kind of enchanted Africa,\u201d Brandt has written. \u201cThey\u2019re my elegy to a world that is steadily, tragically vanishing.\u201d Brandt approaches his work in a manner unlike almost any other contemporary photographer of wildlife\u2014not after the \u201cdramatic single moment\u201d of an animal in motion, he refuses to use a telephoto lens. Instead he prefers to get very close to his subjects, using a medium-format camera to photograph them \u201cin the same way I would a human being, watching for the right \u2018pose\u2019 that hopefully will best capture his or her spirit.\u201d In these portraits and panoramas we see elephants, zebras, giraffes, and other animals at rest, \u201cin the state of being.\u201d While there are no people in his photographs, Brandt\u2019s introduction describes their impact on this parched landscape, where to provide water for their domesticated cattle, the Maasai depend on the same scarce resources that these wild animals need to survive.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A photograph from<\/em> A Shadow Falls, <em>showing a lioness feeding her cub, accompanies Tim Flannery\u2019s review essay on animal behavior, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/23845\">Getting to Know Them<\/a>,\u201d in the April 29 issue of<\/em> The New York Review.  <em>For more about Brandt\u2019s work, including his earlier collection,<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chroniclebooks.com\/index\/main,book-info\/store,books\/products_id,5118\/title,On-This-Earth\/\">On This Earth<\/a>, <em>see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickbrandt.com\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickbrandt.com\">www.nickbrandt.com<\/a><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\"><i>\u2014Eve Bowen<\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/nyrblog?a=Wu0bcl6i93M:_z6do8oLFyg:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/nyrblog?i=Wu0bcl6i93M:_z6do8oLFyg:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/nyrblog?a=Wu0bcl6i93M:_z6do8oLFyg:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/nyrblog?i=Wu0bcl6i93M:_z6do8oLFyg:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/nyrblog?a=Wu0bcl6i93M:_z6do8oLFyg:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/nyrblog?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/nyrblog?a=Wu0bcl6i93M:_z6do8oLFyg:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/nyrblog?i=Wu0bcl6i93M:_z6do8oLFyg:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/nyrblog\/~4\/Wu0bcl6i93M\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Brandt has been photographing the wild animals of East Africa for the past ten years; these images are from his new collection, A Shadow Falls, out now from Abrams. \u201cMy images are unashamedly idyllic and romantic, a kind of enchanted Africa,\u201d Brandt has written. \u201cThey\u2019re my elegy to a world that is steadily, tragically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}