Beneath an Open Sky: PANORAMIC PHOTOGRAPHS (Visions of Illinois)

Gary Irving's photographs display a loving affinity for the American Midwest. Those reproduced in this volume are made with a panoramic camera, a format uniquely capable of exploring the expansive prairie landscape. Irving approaches his rural and small town subject matter with a sense of intimacy that saves his work from being purely sentimental. His photographs are pretty, but not superficially so.