{"id":523435,"date":"2010-04-06T15:02:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T19:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/blogs\/nyrblog\/2010\/apr\/06\/slide-show-portraits-from-a-parched-land\/"},"modified":"2010-04-06T15:02:36","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T19:02:36","slug":"slide-show-portraits-from-a-parched-land-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/523435","title":{"rendered":"Slide Show: Portraits from a Parched Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\n<!--\n .thumb { width: 107px; } \n-->\n<\/style>\n<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 &lt;i&gt;A Shadow Falls&lt;\/i&gt;\"><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 &lt;i&gt;A Shadow Falls&lt;\/i&gt;\"><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 &lt;i&gt;A Shadow Falls&lt;\/i&gt;\"><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 &lt;i&gt;A Shadow Falls&lt;\/i&gt;\"><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 &lt;i&gt;A Shadow Falls&lt;\/i&gt;\"><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 &lt;i&gt;A Shadow Falls&lt;\/i&gt;\"><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 &lt;i&gt;A Shadow Falls&lt;\/i&gt;\"><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 &lt;i&gt;A Shadow Falls&lt;\/i&gt;\"><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 &lt;i&gt;A Shadow Falls&lt;\/i&gt;\"><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 &lt;i&gt;A Shadow Falls&lt;\/i&gt;\"><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 &lt;i&gt;A Shadow Falls&lt;\/i&gt;\"><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 &lt;i&gt;A Shadow Falls&lt;\/i&gt;\"><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&nbsp;Abrams.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"dquo\">&#8220;<\/span>My images are unashamedly idyllic and romantic, a kind of enchanted Africa,&#8221; Brandt has written. &#8220;They&#8217;re my elegy to a world that is steadily, tragically vanishing.&#8221; Brandt approaches his work in a manner unlike almost any other contemporary photographer of wildlife&#8212;not after the &#8220;dramatic single moment&#8221; 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 &#8220;in the same way I would a human being, watching for the right &#8216;pose&#8217; that hopefully will best capture his or her spirit.&#8221; In these portraits and panoramas we see elephants, zebras, giraffes, and other animals at rest, &#8220;in the state of being.&#8221; While there are no people in his photographs, Brandt&#8217;s 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&nbsp;survive.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A photograph from<\/em> A Shadow Falls, <em>showing a lioness feeding her cub, accompanies Tim Flannery&#8217;s review essay on animal behavior, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/23845\">Getting to Know Them<\/a>,&#8221; in the April 29 issue of<\/em> The New York Review.  <em>For more about Brandt&#8217;s 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>&#8212;Eve Bowen<\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/nyrblog?a=S8ml36Mx3_Q:uP1bRPBRbFI:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/nyrblog?i=S8ml36Mx3_Q:uP1bRPBRbFI:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/nyrblog?a=S8ml36Mx3_Q:uP1bRPBRbFI:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/nyrblog?i=S8ml36Mx3_Q:uP1bRPBRbFI:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/nyrblog?a=S8ml36Mx3_Q:uP1bRPBRbFI: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=S8ml36Mx3_Q:uP1bRPBRbFI:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/nyrblog?i=S8ml36Mx3_Q:uP1bRPBRbFI:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/nyrblog\/~4\/S8ml36Mx3_Q\" 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&nbsp;Abrams. &#8220;My images are unashamedly idyllic and romantic, a kind of enchanted Africa,&#8221; Brandt has written. &#8220;They&#8217;re my elegy to a world that is steadily, tragically vanishing.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6716,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523435","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\/6716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}