144 pages | 86 images
Yale University Press
Foreword by Robert Hass, Essay by Joanne Lukitsh, Interview by Dabney Hailey

The photographs in this book document the effects of ranchers, miners and tourists on Idaho’s environment. The images are beautiful and disturbing landscapes of the breathtaking and damaged West. I first saw these wall-size photographs in storage. At this scale, the subtle and haunting experience encompasses the viewer. In book form, the photographs can be looked at again and again; each time more is revealed by the images themselves and by the illuminating captions. After this collaboration, Laura asked me to consult on a monograph of her photographs from an Idaho forest destroyed by wildfire. I advised on image size, type, color and materials, reviewed Laura’s sequencing of the photographs, and exchanged ideas on poems for the epigraph.