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Title: Hidden Beauty : Microworlds Revealed by France Bourely, Laurel Hirsch ISBN: 0-8109-3547-3 Publisher: Harry N Abrams Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Stunning + Inspiring
Comment: Talking a tour through this book is every bit as exciting as exploring new realms. Ms. Bourley had carefully considered her career options and among them were astronaut. Then her focus (literally!) took an unexpected turn. She discovered the depths in the ordinary that surround us. Her travels far, far into inner worlds are amazing and truly uplifting. To see the symmetry and beauty of such teensy tiny wholly seperate beings and things is to speak to the wondrous possibilities of the simple (and even inspirational) joys in seeing not totally unfamiliar patterning on such a miniscule scale. I come away thinking "everything is significant.". The calm in that is worth the price of admission. Along the same lines is a movie entitled "Microcosms". I suggest you look for it. You'll like that, too.
Rating: 5
Summary: Stunning, Visionary Book!
Comment: As a physicist (by profession), and amateur photographer (in my free time) I must say that I have *never* encountered a finer example of a synergy of art and science (not to mention philosophy) displayed than what awaits the lucky reader who purchases this extraordinary book. Some of the images, on a purely aesthetic level, rank (in my humble opinion) with some of the great abstract photographs that have **ever** been taken! Indeed, I am tempted to equate what Dr. Bourely has accomplished here to what Ansel Adams accomplished for the American West with his magnificent large format photography. What Adams represents for the macroscopic world, Dr. Bourely represents for the microscopic one. She is *that* good...as a guide, as a scientist, as photographer, and as a visionary.
Quite simply this is one of the most beautiful books I've ever had the pleasure of owning and I shall treasure it for a long, long time to come. If you love photography, or science, or abstraction, or philosophy, or ever simply marvel at the ineffable mystery we call the universe, you owe it to yourself to get this book. It is destined to be a classic.
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Title: Heaven & Earth : Unseen By The Naked Eye by Katherine Roucoux ISBN: 071484280X Publisher: Phaidon Press Pub. Date: 25 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Super Vision : A New View of Nature by Ivan Amato ISBN: 0810945452 Publisher: Harry N Abrams Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: The Universe: 365 Days by Robert J. Nemiroff, Jerry T. Bonnell ISBN: 0810942682 Publisher: Harry N Abrams Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Hidden Worlds: Looking Through a Scientist's Microscope (Scientists in the Field) by Stephen Kramer, Dennis Kunkel ISBN: 0618055460 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Pub. Date: 24 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Planet Earth by Robert Hughes ISBN: 0375415300 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 29 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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