Imaging Eden

Various Photographers

BOOK INFO 
Flexi, 11 X 9 In. / 160 Pages / 50 Color / 50 Duotone 
ISBN 9781942084037 
List Price: $50.00 

Text by Tim B Wride and Scott Eyman
Photographs by Bert Teunissen, Gerald Slota and Jung Jin Li 

Though they were ceded to the federal government in 1821, it was not until the beginning of the twentieth century that the Everglades were systematically captured in photographs. Imaging Eden presents an overview of the pictures that have formed our understanding of the Everglades, one of the most contested and unique environments on the planet, and new approaches to photographing the vast wetlands system. Using vernacular images, as well as works by such celebrated photographers as Walker Evans, Marian Post Wolcott, Eliot Porter, James Balog and Clyde Butcher, Imaging Eden provides a framework that contextualizes four contemporary commissioned projects. Amsterdam-based artist Bert Teunissen, American photographer and artist Gerald Slota, Korean-American Jung Jin Lee and Magnum Photos photographer Jim Goldberg, working in collaboration with Jordan Stein, have been tasked with discovering the Everglades on their own terms, through their widely differing sensibilities and with their unique visual vocabularies.

Text by Tim B. Wride, Scott Eyman