More of the Same

So, as a photographer I completely understand the lure of photographing the Salton Sea. Many photographers have documented the Sea, the most notable being Richard Misrach, and the subject of the Sea seems to verging on cliche these days.

However Kim Stringfellow has a book that really adds something to the library…

Greetings from the Salton Sea: Folly and Intervention in the Southern California Landscape 1905-2005

© Kim Stringfellow

I really liked the book and all the historical information that was included about the sea itself. I really wish the publisher hadn’t printed the images across the gutter though (imagine the above image split across two pages). However the book provides a thorough history of the sea. The countless mistakes that led to its creation, it’s heyday as a recreational destination, and its demise into an ecological disaster.

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