- Hardcover: 96 pages
- Publisher: Aperture; illustrated edition edition (May 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0893818895
- ISBN-13: 978-0893818890
- Product Dimensions: 28.8 x 28.8 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,172,309 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Charles Lindsay's lens points inward as well as out. In Mentawai Shaman: Keeper of the Rain Forest, he captured his time living with an Indonesian tribal leader and hunter. Closer to home, Upstream explores his latest odyssey: five years spent roaming the American West with a fly rod in one hand and a camera in the other. Here we find photographer as predator, slipping unseen into an alien world to witness the hidden lives of his quarry, to understand his own stalking. The hunter-artist returns from his extended fishing trip with some of the most striking testimonials to an ancient pursuit ever seen. As with Ansel Adams's photos, Lindsay's landscapes of arid hills, big skies, and rushing rivers can be stark and ominous, but Lindsay infuses the lonely, wide-open spaces with a sense of possibility that only a living thing can provide: A sudden swirl in an opaque pool. A taught line whipsawing across a riffle. A dense hatch of mayflies rising above the surface. And then the chance, if brief, to greet the nearly unknowable denizen of another world--a fish miraculously to hand. There's humor and futility, too: the inevitable bird's nest of tippet and fly knotted around a willow. These are images that will enthrall fly-fishers and photography enthusiasts alike, matched with the peerless prose of outdoorsman-author Thomas McGuane.
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"The face of creation takes in everything with a level stare . . . only in observation of nature can we recover that view. "--Thomas McGuane
A poetic exploration, in words and pictures, of the art and spirit of fly-fishing.
Charles Lindsay's grandfather taught him to fly-fish when he was nine years old. Ever since, in pursuit of trout and solitude, he has immersed himself in the clear, rushing waters of the American West. Fly rod in hand, he participates in the ancient rituals between man and nature. At times photographing beneath the surface of the water, Lindsay literally enters the world of the trout. In this close observance of the cosmos within the river, he explores the fundamental relationship of all life to water.
The photographs in Upstream illuminate a primitive world of elemental beauty and fractured light-abstract and utterly in motion. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, with wilderness under siege and humanity increasingly removed from nature, Lindsay uses his camera to express the enduring vitality of the natural world. Thomas McGuane, avid fly fisherman, frequent contributor to Sports Illustrated and Riverwatch, and author of Ninety-two in the Shade, brilliantly explores these themes in his accompanying text.
A poetic exploration, in words and pictures, of the art and spirit of fly-fishing.
Charles Lindsay's grandfather taught him to fly-fish when he was nine years old. Ever since, in pursuit of trout and solitude, he has immersed himself in the clear, rushing waters of the American West. Fly rod in hand, he participates in the ancient rituals between man and nature. At times photographing beneath the surface of the water, Lindsay literally enters the world of the trout. In this close observance of the cosmos within the river, he explores the fundamental relationship of all life to water.
The photographs in Upstream illuminate a primitive world of elemental beauty and fractured light-abstract and utterly in motion. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, with wilderness under siege and humanity increasingly removed from nature, Lindsay uses his camera to express the enduring vitality of the natural world. Thomas McGuane, avid fly fisherman, frequent contributor to Sports Illustrated and Riverwatch, and author of Ninety-two in the Shade, brilliantly explores these themes in his accompanying text.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
I should have waited until winter...,
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This review is from: Upstream: Fly-Fishing in the American West (Hardcover)
This is the type of book that can transport you back to the stream in a moment. In the dead of winter while I'm tying flies this book would help me remember the take, the run, the awe and release. But I didn't wait and I'm glad. This book is a treasure of sights and words that works any time of year. Charles Lindsay's photo's are very unique and yet at once familiar to anyone who has fished a stream. Dream-like and enchanting. If you fly fish, buy this book, buy two, one for your best fishing buddy too.
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perfect meld of pix and text,
By Bill Plummer (NYC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Upstream: Fly-Fishing in the American West (Hardcover)
Tom McGuane is hands-down our best fishing writer. His observations are always provocative and invariably dressed in memorable language. The surprise here is Charles Lindsay's photographs. Lindsay does not give us familiar shot of the country's top fly fishing destinations, as do most tomes in the photo book genre. Rather he offers a look at the shape and whirl and textures of fly fishing. He gives us the trout as it noses up out of the element to take a fly, or as it leaps from the water, sending a spray of water. He offers rainbows schooling beneath the surface, the water purling over rock so that it is hard to tell where the water stops and the rock begins. A lovely meld of words and pictures.
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perfect meld of pix and text,
By Bill Plummer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Upstream: Fly-Fishing in the American West (Hardcover)
Tom McGuane is hands-down our best fishing writer. His observations are always provocative and invariably dressed in memorable language. The surprise here is Charles Lindsay's photographs. Lindsay does not give us familiar shot of the country's top fly fishing destinations, as do most tomes in the photo book genre. Rather he offers a look at the shape and whirl and textures of fly fishing. He gives us the trout as it noses up out of the element to take a fly, or as it leaps from the water, sending a spray of water. He offers rainbows schooling beneath the surface, the water purling over rock so that it is hard to tell where the water stops and the rock begins. A lovely meld of words and pictures.
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
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I should have waited until winter...,
By Richard Lewis "AKA Roper" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Upstream: Fly-Fishing in the American West (Hardcover)
This is the type of book that can transport you back to the stream in a moment. In the dead of winter while I'm tying flies this book would help me remember the take, the run, the awe and release. But I didn't wait and I'm glad. This book is a treasure of sights and words that works any time of year. Charles Lindsay's photo's are very unique and yet at once familiar to anyone who has fished a stream. Dream-like and enchanting. If you fly fish, buy this book, buy two, one for your best fishing buddy too.
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Vacation From Your Every Day World,
By gail "cowgirl" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Upstream: Fly-Fishing in the American West (Hardcover)
Beautiful essays and magnificent photos. This book is a retreat from every day stress and busy lives. Buy it for a gift, but keep one for your self.
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