{"product_id":"the-one-hundred-circle-farm-hardcover","title":"The One Hundred Circle Farm - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEmmet Gowin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLucas Bessire\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA powerful photographic survey of the impact of irrigation systems on the landscape of the United States\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe One Hundred Circle Farm\u003c\/i\u003e, renowned photographer Emmet Gowin (b. 1941) presents stunning aerial images of center-pivot irrigation systems in the western and midwestern United States. This type of farming involves a method of watering crops in which equipment rotates around a centrally drilled well, creating enormous, distinct circles of irrigated land, often in the midst of dry terrain. Anyone who has taken a cross-country flight has likely seen countless acres of these iconic symbols of industrial agriculture. Through a faithful yet personal photographic survey, Gowin's powerful images not only bear witness to the ambitions humans wield in shaping the landscape, but also attest to how such primal elements--circles, pivots, and lines--symbolize water depletion and the fragile environment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe stark photographic compositions, more than one hundred in all, were created over eight years. Fields resemble lost civilizations; crops gape like strange new suns. Hauntingly beautiful, the images highlight Earth's nourishing geology, visual evidence of our labors. Inscribed onto the earth, these lines are reminders of the technology extracting unimaginable amounts of water that cannot be replaced, and raise questions about what large-scale irrigation must answer for when the water runs out. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith an afterword by anthropologist Lucas Bessire discussing the history and impact of pivot irrigation on American farming, \u003ci\u003eThe One Hundred Circle Farm\u003c\/i\u003e stands as a poetic visual record, evidence of the tenuous connections between human enterprise and our planet's most precious resource.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmmet Gowin\u003c\/b\u003e is emeritus professor of photography at Princeton University. His many books include \u003ci\u003eThe Nevada Test Site\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMariposas Nocturnas\u003c\/i\u003e (both Princeton). His photographs are in collections around the world, including at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Morgan Library and Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Tokyo Museum of Art. \u003cb\u003eLucas Bessire\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. His books include \u003ci\u003eRunning Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains \u003c\/i\u003e(Princeton).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 12.2 x 10.08 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 19, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766792585504,"sku":"9780691235417","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f849921054b975b6922bdea4dab0d805.webp?v=1780299044","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-one-hundred-circle-farm-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}