Redwood Saw
2011
$71.00
Buy Redwood Saw by Richard Rothman. First edition (2011). First impression. Large format hardback in new condition. No markings. This is a new book.
About Redwood Saw
In the summer of 2004, Richard Rothman travelled west with a 4x5 camera. Here, he explored the remaining fragments of ancient old-growth forests in Northern California. He pitched a tent amid the mammoth stands of redwoods and then began making formal, intricate portraits of the forest. He describes this as 'the most visually stimulating environment I had ever been in.' Unexpectedly, he also began developing an interest in the neighboring town of Crescent City. An economically depressed logging and fishing community. Rothman was affected by the town's architecture, it's emotional tenor, it's political and religious culture.
The sometimes unconscious relationship that the towns people had with the corralled forest to the east and the Pacific Ocean. This represents the end of the Western frontier. Furthermore, the contrast between the radical, ornate environment of the forest. And then the trashed, disposable landscape of the town that abutted it became the subject of a more complex project which would take some surprising twists and turns. The body of work, made over a five year period, is gathered together in the artist's monumental first book, Redwood Saw.
