Marfa Flights: Aerial Views of Big Bend Country Vol 26 (Tarleton St University)

Review "If you love the Big Bend, you will cherish this book."The Eagle The Eagle Published On: 2014-09-10"These stunning images of one of the most sparselypopulated and least visited regions of North America are not your typical coffee table book pretty pictures.InMarfa Flights: Aerial Views of Big Bend Country,Paul Chaplo, a classically trained visual artist who also happens to be aprofessional photographer,found and composed out ofthis swirlingly violent and bone-dry landscapesomething wondrous and haunting.Photographed from a single engineairplane, at various times of day, the land and sky and jewel-like ribbons of water come alive with form, muscle,and color." C.M. Mayo,author ofMiraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California C. M. Mayo Published On: 2014-11-05 Product Description Take an unforgettable sky excursion over Big Bend with photographer Paul Chaplo as he captures the shapes, textures, and colors of the craggy, weathered landforms people usually see only from the groundand some places no photographer has gone before. Flying from Marfa, and hanging precariously from the open door of an aircraft, Chaplo shares a hawk's eye view of a fiercely beautiful region, revealing the stark and magnificent landscapes carved by the force of eons of wind and water on the arid, mountainous country along the Rio Grande. About the Author PAUL V. CHAPLO is a professional photographer specializing in corporate and architectural photography. His creative workhas been exhibited in museums around the country, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the National Museum of American Art in Washington, DC. He lives in Arlington, Texas.