There and Back : : Photographs From the Edge

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Call Number: Adult Book / Nonfiction / Art / Photography / Chin, Jimmy
On Shelf At: Westgate Branch

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Foreword -- Introduction -- Places Photographed -- Charakusa 1999 -- Forbidden Towers Expedition -- K7 2001 -- Patagonia -- Chang Tang 2002 -- Tetons -- Everest Snowboard 2003 -- Dean Potter -- Filming Everest -- Mali 2004 -- Steph Davis -- Everest Ski 2006 -- 180 South 2008 -- Meru 2008 -- Borneo Big Wall -- Shangri-La Expedition -- Yosemite 2010 -- Chad 2010 -- Skiing Denali -- Meru 2011 -- Oman -- Bugaboos -- Travis Rice -- Free Solo 2016 -- One World Trade Center -- Scot Schmidt -- Antarctica 2017.
"Filmmaker, photographer, and world-class mountaineer Jimmy Chin goes where few can follow to capture stunning images in death-defying situations. There and Back draws from his breathtaking portfolio of photographs, captured over twenty years during cutting-edge expeditions on all seven continents--from skiing Mount Everest, to an unsupported traverse of Tibet's Chang Tang Plateau on foot, to first ascents in Chad's Ennedi Desert and Antarctica's Queen Maud Land. Along the way, Chin shares behind-the-scenes details about how he captured such astounding images in impossible conditions, and tells the stories of the legendary adventurers and remarkable athletes he has photographed, including Alex Honnold, the star of his Academy Award-winning documentary film Free Solo; ski mountaineer Kit DesLauriers; snowboarder Travis Rice; and mountaineers Conrad Anker and Yvon Chouinard."--Amazon.com

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Stunning Adventure Photography submitted by Meginator on July 25, 2022, 10:37pm Climbing some of the world’s highest, most unforgiving peaks, making first ascents of towers in remote desert locations, and trekking across an isolated plateau in search of a dwindling animal population are difficult enough on their own, but Jimmy Chin does all this and more while documenting every step with his cameras. This book collects photographs from some of his most notable expeditions on six continents (Australia is the only one not represented), ranging from stunning landscapes to intimate portraits of fellow climbers and local populations. Chin has a wonderful eye for detail and is able to convey both the epic scale and intense difficulty of climbers’ achievements and some of the gritty details about all of the preparation and on-the-spot decisionmaking that goes into these feats. Each section has a brief narrative preface that puts the featured expedition in context, revealing more about the process of planning, executing, and sometimes abandoning these projects. This book is absolutely essential for anyone who is interested in modern climbing or modern landscape photography.