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An expansive photographic sojourn from Greenland to the Florida Keys. The East Coast of North America is a wondrous, intriguing, yet threatened coastline. It zigs and zags for more than 5,500 miles and assumes a multifaceted, jigsaw shape from the Arctic Circle and Greenland across the Canadian Maritimes, then southward into Maine, Cape Cod, New York Harbor, the Delaware and Chesapeake Bays, along the Outer Banks to Charleston Harbor and on to Cape Canaveral. It ends at the Dry Tortugas on the western tip of the Florida Keys near the Tropic of Cancer. In this companion book to West Coast: Bering to Baja, David Freese has once again captured a vast coastal region. AUTHOR: David Freese has spent the last fifteen years photographing the West and East Coasts of North America, resulting in two books” West Coast: Bering to Baja (2012) and East Coast: Arctic to Tropic (2016).. In addition to his ongoing fine-art projects, he has worked as a freelance assignment photographer on location for more than thirty years and has taught for years at the Film and Media Arts Department at Temple University. His prints are in many collections, including the Cleveland Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, Haggerty Museum of Art, and Library of Congress. Freese's photographs have appeared in Communication Arts, Photo District News, Photo Insider, Polaroid International, Popular Photography, Smithsonian Air and Space, and View Camera magazines. His images can also be seen on the Internet at LensCulture and at the Art Photo Index. 185 colour photographs, 1 map

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David Freese's approach to photographing the North American landscape culminates in images that are both new and part of a tradition that can be traced back to that of the American Luminous tradition on through Western exploratory photography of William Henry Jackson, Timothy O'Sullivan, Carleton Watkins, and Eadweard Muybridge during the nineteenth century. Those classic, pinpoint-sharp photographs sufficed with light became the source material for artists and lawmakers to preserve and value these landscapes before and after the Civil War. Freese's vision, like those of his famous predecessors, connotes an artistic sensibility of hope and loss while inspiring awe and woe. --William Williams, Professor of Fine Arts and Curator of Photography, Haverford College From Greenland's glaciers to the industrialized swamps of New Jersey, to the exposed Outer Banks to the Florida Everglades, David Freese reveals a remarkable graphic beauty all along North America's ecologically vulnerable East Coast. His delectable images at once entrance us and warn us of the fragility of our coasts in the face of global warming and our human desire to live by the sea. --Stephen Perloff The Photo Review David Freese's compelling photographs depicting the Atlantic seaboard are both an invaluable historical record of what things look like now as well as a timely wake-up call to how easily coastal communities everywhere along the East Coast will be affected by a rising sea-level and increased extreme-weather conditions. --Jolene Hanson, Director, The G2 Gallery, Venice, California Once again, David Freese and his camera have captured the endless scenic variety of a continent's edge. But these extraordinary images of North America's East Coast do something more subtle as well--they help us see the vulnerability of a landscape poised on the brink of a changing climate. The result is both moving and sobering. --Michael Brune, Executive Director, The Sierra Club David Freese hadn't considered an East Coast version of his book West Coast: Bering to Baja, a dramatic look at the West Coast of North America from the ground and from the air. That changed in 2012 when Superstorm Sandy struck and Freese visited New York and New Jersey. Once he saw the devastation, he decided to begin a project that showcased how the rising waters were affecting cities, islands, national parks, and national wildlife refugees through aerial photography on North America's eastern shore (there are also images taken from the ground). --David Rosenberg Slate A unique, thoughtful and thought-provoking photographic compendium, East Coast: Arctic to Tropic is certain to be an enduringly popular addition to personal, community, college, and university library. --Midwest Book Review Exploring the jagged eastern coastline of North America with a mixture of aerial and land-based photography, Freese demonstrates the interconnectivity of land and sea, muting cityscapes and cultures to intensify the correlation between water and land... With these elegant reproductions, Freese has expertly documented the ageless and seemingly impermeable elements of the coast, as well as a threatened landscape facing the perils of climate change. --Photographer's Forum Freese's sepia-toned images recall 19th-century landscape photography, and the use of the medium as a form of activism goes back to that era... One of Freese's most haunting landscapes echoes Stoddard's vision, focusing on the silhouetted skeletons of trees caught in the rising currents on South Carolina's Edisto Island. While the American government continues to lag in addressing climate change, photography can, hopefully, be a catalyst for action. --Hyperallergic

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"David Freese has spent the last fifteen years photographing the West and East Coasts of North America, resulting in two books” West Coast: Bering to Baja (2012) and East Coast: Arctic to Tropic (2016).. In addition to his ongoing fine-art projects, he has worked as a freelance assignment photographer on location for more than thirty years and has taught for years at the Film and Media Arts Department at Temple University. His prints are in many collections, including the Cleveland Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, Haggerty Museum of Art, and Library of Congress. Freese’s photographs have appeared in Communication Arts, Photo District News, Photo Insider, Polaroid International, Popular Photography, Smithsonian Air and Space, and View Camera magazines. His images can also be seen on the Internet at LensCulture and at the Art Photo Index. Simon Winchester was born in North London, England, in 1944, and was raised there. After receiving an undergraduate degree in geology from Oxford University in 1963, he worked as a field geologist in Africa for a Canadian mining company before switching careers in 1967 and becoming a journalist for The Guardian and a frequent commentator on, and contributor to, BBC radio. Over the years Winchester has written for Smithsonian, National Geographic, and Conde Nast Traveler magazines, and he is the author of more than twenty best-selling books, including The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Harper Perennial, 1999), The Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (Harper Perennial, 2001), Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded (Harper Perennial, 2003),A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 (Harper Perennial, 2005), and Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories (Harper Perennial, 2010). In 2006, Winchester was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for ""services to journalism and literature."" His Website iswww.simonwinchester.com. Jenna Butler is a Canadian ecocritic, organic farmer, beekeeper, and author of three critically acclaimed books of poetry and a collection of essays, A Profession of Hope: Farming on the Edge of the Grizzly Trail (2015). Butler’s work as an academic, creative writer, and ecocritic has taken her around the world, from the Deep South of the United States to the Arctic Circle onboard a barquentine sailing ship."

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