Australian Colors: Images of the Outback

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Authors: Bill Bachman, Tim Winton
Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
Category: Book

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Sales Rank: 1344378

Media: Paperback
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.9
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 10.8 x 0.6

ISBN: 0817442359
Dewey Decimal Number: 994.040222
EAN: 9780817442354
ASIN: 0817442359

Publication Date: February 2001
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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com Review
Immense, haunting, unique in geology and life forms, the outback looms to the north and west of Australia's urbanized southeast coast. For two years, photojournalist Bill Bachman recorded both this forbidding landscape and the people who dwell--and even thrive--in it, compiling the images for his remarkable book, Australian Colors. Deftly avoiding all the usual cliches--there is not a single kangaroo shot--Australian Colors mixes stunning vistas of twisted cliffs and sweeping plains with more intimate portraits of outback culture. Here are the jackaroos and jillaroos (cowboys and cowgirls) who work the vast outback ranches, the sunken-jawed fishers of isolated creeks and shoals, the well-lubricated celebrants at a bush horse race. Bachman's striking photographs are well matched by his lengthy, colorful captions, which go far beyond typical coffee-table book text. In addition, each of the book's winningly titled 19 sections ("Trees as Men Walking," "Dogs? They Run the Country") begins with a short essay by award-winning Australian novelist Tim Winton, whose evocative, often humorous prose perfectly complements Bachman's images. There is one question that has to be asked, however: why are Australia's aborigines--the outback's original inhabitants--so underrepresented in Australian Colors? By revealing so little of them, perhaps Bachman reveals more of outback culture than he intends. --Rebecca Gleason

Product Description
Startling, wry, lyrical, and beguiling photographs and passionate commentary document the landscape and people of Australia's interior in this panoramic volume. 331 color illustrations.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars

A true feeling for the "outback" January 6, 2000
Mme Trina Bouvet (Grenoble, France)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful

This book is magic for people who, like me, love the Australian "outback" and want to take a little bit of it home. But for all those who have never been, and can perhaps only dream of going, then the next best way of experiencing its mystery,its stark beauty, not to mention the warmth of the locals, is through Bill Bachman's marvellous photos. They capture his love for the country and believe me, the colours are real! Outback Australia truly is this red.