This is a collection of short pieces by and interviews with photographer Frank Gohlke. Some of the chapters are more useful then others, and there is some repetition, but most of them have insightful things to say about landscape, particularly the problem of presenting nature as it exists in the man made environment (a theme that Gohlke convincingly argues was a concern of Thoreu’s).
It’s hard to find books that talk sensibly about non-technical and non-historical aspects of photography. This is one of those rare books. While it’s not quite as widely applicable or as tightly edited at Robert Adams’ “Beauty in Photography“, it belongs next to it on the shelf.