Islands of the Blest

Islands of the BlestEdited by Bryan Schutmaat and Ashlyn Davis These photographs depict various places in the American West. They were taken over a one hundred year period, from the 1870s through the 1970s. The photographers presented here range from the completely unknown to some of Americas most distinguished practitioners of the medium. All images were sourced from digital public archives, primarily the Library of Congress and the United States Geological Survey.

” Winogrand made the photographs in this book in defiance of this self-appraisal

From the muted blue luster of the archaic cyanotype process

Garry Winogrand is known primarily for his spontaneous and energetic street photography in black-and-white

In his third book

by Los Angeles—it is a metropolis ravaged by immense poverty

and costumes

we will bring about our own extinction

Joe Dallesandro

yet cartoonish cibachrome prints of pastel drawings

His images of children and adolescents are constructed by digitally manipulating and combining parts of faces and bodies belonging to people of various ethnicities

Text by Olga Medvedkova

Today he is one of America's finest portrait artists and this collection of drawings is an important cultural document of our time