Ghostlight / / Keith Carter.
A collection of otherworldly photographs of Southern wetlands featuring an original ghost story. Southern wetlands, with their moss-draped trees and dark water obscuring mysteries below, are eerily beautiful places, home to ghost stories and haunting, ethereal light. The newest collection from award...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2022 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2023] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (184 p.) |
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Summary: | A collection of otherworldly photographs of Southern wetlands featuring an original ghost story. Southern wetlands, with their moss-draped trees and dark water obscuring mysteries below, are eerily beautiful places, home to ghost stories and haunting, ethereal light. The newest collection from award-winning photographer Keith Carter, Ghostlight captures the otherwordly spirits of swamps, marshes, bogs, baygalls, bayous, and fens in more than a hundred photographs. From Ossabaw Island, Georgia, to his home ground of East Texas, Carter seeks "the secretive and mysterious" of this often-overlooked landscape: wisps of fog drifting between tree branches; faceless figures contemplating a bog; owls staring directly at the camera lens; infinite paths leading to unknown parts. Similarly, spectral images are evoked in the original short story that opens this book. Ghostlight, writes best-selling author Bret Anthony Johnston, "hovers, darts, disappears. It can be as mean as a cottonmouth, as mischievous aes a child. The closer you get, the farther the light recedes." A masterpiece of "Bayou Gothic," Ghostlight challenges our perceptions and invites us to experience the beauty of this elusive world. |
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Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781477326565 9783110766516 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Keith Carter. |