Andrew Moore: Dirt Meridian

(Lyle Rexer Photograph Magazine) . I find so many of the photographs to be moving, dignified, and deeply sympathetic, I am not sure you can ask more of a photographer

Dirt Meridian interweaves two stories: the myths and history of the vast, severe American High Plains alongside portraits of the people who live there today. The "meridian" of the title refers to the 100th meridian, the longitude that neatly bisects the US and has long been considered the dividing line between the East and West. Other parts of the meridian cross contentious zones such as the heavily fracked Bakken formation in North Dakota. Much of the meridian traverses America's so-called flyov

For those who love the land RFD Painter I got this as a gift for a very special person who loves the land (North Dakota) as much I as do (Nebraska). We have become accustomed to our own snapshots of favorite places, and even with wonderful digital cameras, we don't get the sweep that matches our emotions as we gaze at the land and sky. Andrew Moore and the pilot who mounted a camera on the wing strut open up the land as it goes toward the horizon--sunshiny and ready to harvest, or bleak, it's bigger than we are. In all these years man has safeguarded it or mistreated it, it still. Robin said The plain facts: too much wind, too little rain. Out of this vast Plains country photographer Andrew Moore travelled from the Dakotas down to Texas and took sixty remarkable photos for the book. What makes so many of his images rather special is that they were taken with a camera mounted on the wing of a small plane. This enabled him to cover the vast distances easily and land near visual interesting places for a ground shot. The idea clearly paid off because as well as the aerial shots there are others well away from roads and tracks which a road bound photographer would never find.I tho. "Stunning" according to readzalot. What a great book if you care about the 100th meridian - even if you don't, you'll like the images and the text - they're beyond compare