Friday 3 June 2016

98. New Zealand: The Essential Landscape by Rob Brown


BOOK REVIEW: New Zealand – The Essential Landscape by Rob Brown

As children, we loved picture books or just any book that contained colourful pictures of anything, from fairies to trees to houses. When adulthood clutched us in its arms, we constantly fall in love with realistic and beautiful pictures of our surroundings, a clear cry to embrace our childhood of appreciating something in a frame. In this book, the author and photographer Rob Brown caresses that love by cramming a book with artistically taken photographs of New Zealand’s vast landscape.

For nearly 2 decades the author has been hauling his heavy and bulky large-format camera all over the wild parts of New Zealand. This has required a singular level of dedication and stamina, but it has been this cumbersome camera that has enabled him to realize the immensely detailed and beautifully lit photographs that so distinguish his work.

This book presents a magnificent roll-call of what can truly be claimed as the essential landscapes of Aotearoa: Stewart Island, the Catlins, Nelson Lakes national parks and many more of New Zealand’s breathtaking sceneries.


Rob Brown is clearly one of the finest landscape photographers around and this book is a superb insight into the elegance and strength of his work. Highly recommended, this book has one of the most stunning photographs I’ve seen of nature and all its beauty.

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