A startlingly insightful look at sublime landscapes from bestselling author and art writer Henry Carroll, with images from today's most innovative photographers

How do the most diverse and relevant voices of contemporary photography respond to the urgent issues of today? In this series of small, insightful, and beautifully presented books, Henry Carroll, the bestselling photography writer of the last decade, unpacks the ideas behind images to reflect on race, gender, faith, inequality, beauty, politics, and our shifting relationship to animals, nature, and the environment. Following HUMANS and ANIMALS, the third book in the series, LAND, considers humanity's changing relationship with the sublime, a relationship that has seen us edge further away from real encounters. The photographs explore how the sublime can, and has been, commodified, packaged, and distributed, leading to an alarming emotional distancing. With images from a diverse group of photographers, Carroll explores the impermanence of borders, the human reaction to scenes of devastation on Instagram feeds, and the many variables that inform one's relationship to land. He considers how a photographer's response to landscape is subjective, full of meaning that's colored by their own psyches, foibles, fears, and hopes. With captivating and striking photography, Carroll invites the reader to contemplate how their inner world influences their interactions with the natural world.

畅销书作家和艺术作家亨利·卡罗尔（Henry Carroll）以惊人的洞察力审视壮丽的风景，并配以当代富有创新精神的摄影师的作品。

当代摄影多样化和相关的声音如何回应当今的紧迫问题？在这一系列短小精悍、见解深刻、呈现精美的书籍中，亨利·卡罗尔，过去十年中的畅销摄影作家，解读了图像背后的想法，以反思种族、性别、信仰、不平等、美、政治，以及我们与动物、自然和环境之间不断变化的关系。继《人类》和《动物》之后，该系列的第三本书《土地》探讨了人类与崇高事物的关系变化，这种关系反映了我们与真实的距离越来越远。这些照片探讨了崇高事物是如何，并且已经被商品化、包装和传播，导致了惊人的情感疏离。卡罗尔通过不同摄影师的照片，探索了边界的无常，人们对Instagram 订阅流上的灾难场景的反应，以及影响人们与土地关系的许多变量。他认为摄影师对景观的反应是主观的，充满了他们自己的心理、弱点、恐惧和希望所赋予的意义。卡罗尔通过迷人的、引人注目的摄影作品，邀请读者思考他们的内心世界如何影响他们与自然界的互动。