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Taking Notice : Paying Attention - how a traveler seesTaking Notice : Paying Attention - how a traveler sees (book)

Print: $54.92

Learning to be observant is the way to come back from travel with great memories and great images. But it takes practice and imagination. This book helps you get access to both.

Window Dressing : Idealized women in the age of mannequins and photographyWindow Dressing : Idealized women in the age of mannequins and photography (book)

Print: $34.32

The display of idealized women began with sculpture and when the commercial storefront arrived so did the mannequin and it became the dominant form of representing women. Advancements in printing has caused large photographic images to displace the once dominant mannequin. This book uses photography to chronicle that evolution.

NEW NatureNEW Nature (book)

Print: $33.52

Gary Dwyer’s images often indicate constraints and isolation and demonstrate the increasing complexity of our relationship with the totality of our environment and are evidence of “The New Nature”

CONTEXTCONTEXT (book)

Print: $71.52

The language of the landscape is pertinent to all designers concerned with the environment. Spanning continents and decades,Gary Dwyer's work in Public and environmental art act as a guide to the processes of understanding place and present innovative methods of site analysis.

Musings from the MaghrebMusings from the Maghreb (book)

Print: $47.50

North Africa has the same latitude as Miami and they could not be further from each other. Extensive travel and photography in Morocco left the impression that Morocco is a country with enormous untapped potential. This photographic odyssey resulted from long travels in Morocco using an enormous variety of film types to capture the complexity of the country.

WORKS The sculpture of Gary DwyerWORKS The sculpture of Gary Dwyer (book)

Print: $53.92

This book presents the most complete photographic record of Gary Dwyer's object-based sculptures ever assembled and covers nearly three decades of intense activity and passion. Over 200 works in metal, wood and stone are presented in full color.

The Signs of the Time volume twoThe Signs of the Time volume two (book)

Print: $33.17

This is the second of two volumes and is another light hearted look at the silly and humorous signs that are part of our everyday lives. The final two chapters take an irreverent look at our vehicles and our roads.

The Signs of the Time volume oneThe Signs of the Time volume one (book)

Print: $31.97

This is the first of two volumes and is a light hearted look at the silly and humorous signs that are part of everyday life. Travelers take particular enjoyment in noticing unusual signs, especially when languages are confused.

A Short Voyage in a Long LandA Short Voyage in a Long Land (book)

Print: $18.62

In 1994, photographer Gary Dwyer was contacted by UNESCO in Paris to discover if he could help with increasing their photographic documentation of The Complex of Hué Monuments in Vietnam. His journal and photographs track his month long travel throughout a country in profound transition.

ChronosChronos (book)

Print: $36.32

This collection of portraits,self-portraits, contemporary photography and written commentary weaving the narrative of the life the artist Gary Dwyer.

Architectural AdventuresArchitectural Adventures (book)

Print: $25.17

Gary Dwyer spent several decades teaching full-time in Colleges and Universities while producing large commissioned sculptures. At the same time he designed and built diverse buildings. This book photographically records his very complicated path and the surprising results.

Landscape Sculpture The Drawings of Gary DwyerLandscape Sculpture The Drawings of Gary Dwyer (book)

Print: $30.32

From Ictinus to Piranisi to Autocad, there is endless drawing documentation, but precious little evidence of the drawings of people concerned with the landscape as a topic of drawing and design. This, the third and final volume in the drawing series, exposes the reader to ideas about the landscape they probably never knew existed and that these ideas were developed through drawing.

The Paintings and Graphic Design of Gary DwyerThe Paintings and Graphic Design of Gary Dwyer (book)

Print: $31.62

Spanning from 1969 to 2002 this collection presents Gary Dwyer's activities outside the realms of Sculpture, drawing and photography.

Landscape Objects The Drawings of Gary DwyerLandscape Objects The Drawings of Gary Dwyer (book)

Print: $29.42

Many of these drawings are drawings about sculpture. They are also drawings about thinking. Drawings about possibility. I put them together here for one of the same reasons an artist has an exhibition: to have lots of work up in one place in order to think about what it means, to see where the holes are and if it is cohesive. But most importantly seeing the work in one place helps to discover what is next.

Figuration and Abstraction The Drawings of Gary DwyerFiguration and Abstraction The Drawings of Gary Dwyer (book)

Print: $33.62

At the beginning, I thought of drawings as a means for getting something else done or communicated. A method for visual explanation rather than exploration. Slowly, I learned that explanation was only one of the ways drawings could function. This collection of 130 drawings represents experimentation with diverse media and styles from 1980 to 2006

ellipses - The journal and sketchbook of Jacob Feldmanellipses - The journal and sketchbook of Jacob Feldman (book)

Print: $43.90

Jacob Feldman left his camera at home when he went on a sabbatical and as he traveled around the world, he drew and wrote. This was in 1979 when journaling was uncommon. He was the very first Peace Corp volunteer ever and his perspective on travel, drawing and seeing will help us all.

RARE BIRDS - The life and times of Walt and Bette TryonRARE BIRDS - The life and times of Walt and Bette Tryon (book)

Print: $38.70

Walt and Bette Tryon’s lives and careers spanned continents as well as decades. Compassion was their collective watchword. The images contained in this book are somewhat chronological fragments of two remarkable people who made the very most of their own talents and discovered surprising ways of helping others.

Available Light - The photography of Walt TryonAvailable Light - The photography of Walt Tryon (book)

Print: $53.55

Walt Tryon was a teacher of great compassion and a tireless traveler. While moving along that complex path he became an amazing photographer. Walt Tryon was able to look through his viewfinder to see past the picture and enter the realm of understanding. His images are windows on a world most of us only wish we had seen. All proceeds from the sale of this book support the Walt Tryon Memorial Foundation

One Long Green Stripe in the DustOne Long Green Stripe in the Dust (book)

Print: $67.70

Photographing in the Middle East has never been easy but traveling to Egypt after tourists had been machine-gunned at the tomb of Hatshupset made it even more difficult, but the allure of the eternal Nile was too much to pass up. This is a photographic journey from the delta into Sudan.