Alex MacLean
OVER: The American Landscape at the Tipping Point

For more than thirty years, Alex MacLean’s aerial photographs have captured the evolution of the American landscape and the complex relationship between its natural and constructed environments. OVER: The American Landscape at the Tipping Point is an ambitious and visually breathtaking catalogue of the extraordinary patterns and profound physical consequences brought about by the natural processes and human intervention.

Rob McDonald
BIRTH PLACE: The Little Manse – Birthplace of Erskine Caldwell

As the author of such novels as Tobacco Road and God’s Little Acre, Erskine Caldwell’s place in the history of popular culture was assured when he died in 1987. The bare-wood house in tiny Moreland, Georgia, where Caldwell was born in 1903 serves as the subject of Rob McDonald’s book. As Rob writes in the introduction, “Walking around the house, looking at the shelves of Caldwell’s books, the cases of memorabilia, I tried to forget about the celebrity. I found myself reflecting on how surely place shapes identity, how it inspires a worldview—how memory and imagination begin before we know it.”

Rosamond Purcell
EGG & NEST

The beauty of the robin’s egg is not lost on the child who discovers the nest, nor on the collector of nature’s marvels. Such instances of wonder find fitting expression in the photographs of Rosamond Purcell, whose work captures the intricacy of nests and the aesthetic perfection of bird eggs. Mining the ornithological treasures of the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology, Purcell produces pictures as lovely and various as the artifacts she photographs.