Prevailing Westerlies - Fine Art Black and White Photography

Prevailing Westerlies: Fine Art Photographs

Stunning American West Black and White Photography

The clarity of Ed Lavino’s images conveys an intensity of feeling that commands attention. His photographs speak of a longing to be part of the natural world while questioning and challenging our destructiveness. Prevailing Westerlies conveys a remarkable knowledge of people and places of the Rocky Mountain West that comes from long familiarity and close observation.

“There is something beautifully harmonious in each of these landscapes.”

Lavino’s mastery of the black and white image equals that of the best 20th-century photographers, yet his work is decidedly modern. His unconventional intellect and perspective will transfix and delight, compelling you to view these photographs time and again.

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Prevailing Westerlies book information

Author: Ed Lavino
ISBN: 978-0-9960206-8-8
Market price (U.S.): $26.95 (Paperback)
Page count: 156
Illustrations: Yes
Formats: Paperback, eBook
Title code: Book118
Available in these countries: United States, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Spain, France, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, United Kingdom

This collection of black and white art images is the perfect gift for the traveler, photographer, or nature lover in your life!

Prevailing Westerlies Sample Pages

Enjoy several sample pages from Prevailing Westerlies. One of the goals of the book’s layout was to make each image set more than the sum of its parts. Every turn of the page presents the reader with images and text to entertain and provoke thought.

About the author

Ed Lavino was born in 1959 in Middletown, New York. He was the only son born to Barbara Robbins and Paul Goddard. Through a series of family challenges, Ed was sent to live with his aunt Geraldine Houghtaling in the Catskill Hamlet of Willowemoc, New York.

Ed is a photographer in Jackson Hole, WY. His work has been featured through many galleries, including the Center for the Arts in Jackson, WY. Prevailing Westerlies is the culmination of his years of large-format, fine art photography.

Ed Lavino grew up in the Catskill Mountains where he spent many solitary days exploring the forest with an Instamatic camera. As an adult he toted large format cameras into progressively wilder terrain. For three decades now he has lived in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and documented his passion for the people and places of the High Plains West.

From the book:

Dry Pond, Wind River Indian Reservation,Wyoming

This photo was taken on a backpacking trip in a remote area of the northern Wind River Mountain Range. A Shoshone tribal member told me about a shortcut to Roberts Mountain used by reservation hunters in the fall. As I tried to follow it, I found myself in a thickly wooded area, with stone cairns spaced at considerable distances.

Gradually, the trail became nonexistent. A huge bank of fog moved in as I arrived at this dry, primordial pond, ringed with boulders. I watched the fog ebb and flow, as if the mountain were breathing. I took this photograph as the fog receded.