Serpentine by Mark Laita

Serpentine by Mark Laita (Author), William Vollmann (Introduction). Photographer Mark Laita unveils a pantheon of spectacular snakes on this electrifying collection. Inciting both allure and alarm, shining pastel pythons and vibrant green vipers slither across the pages. An illuminating essay by William T. Vollmann accompanies the photographs, delving into the associations with snakes that hang-out our collective imagination.

From the iridescent blue Malaysian coral snake to the candy-cane-striped albino Honduran milk snake, the aptly named lovely pit viper, and the gleaming black mamba, the world’s most dangerous and lovely snakes are pictured in Serpentine, displaying off their fascinating colours and textures-as well as the sensual varieties their motion creates. Through Laita’s lens, there may be nothing they will do, no place they'll take, that fails to be anything but mesmerizing.

This can be a staggeringly lovely book. Every of the ninety-six illustrated snakes is represented by a single full-web page image (aside from a number of double-page spreads), photographed towards a plain black background, as shown in Amazon's copy of the dust-jacket.

This plain background permits the fantastic thing about the snakes' markings and lithe, sinuous bodies to be appreciated with out the distraction of extraneous detail. At the back of the book each image is reproduced as a thumbnail, together with primary info regarding the snake. I am no professional, so I can not touch upon the accuracy of the textual content or even the identification of the snakes.

However, for me, what little textual content there's - and there actually may be very little - is almost irrelevant. If I might afford to, I would purchase a second copy, minimize it up, frame the images and dangle them on the wall. That is how beautiful this book is. Nature as art. Anybody who can appreciate reptiles will discover this e book mesmerizing. The photographs are absolutely stunning. The only motive I didn't give it a full five stars is as a result of there is a picture of a snake with an alligator through which the snake is incorrectly acknowledged to be a Reticulated Python...it's truly a Boa Constrictor. That aside, I extremely advocate this glorious book

Serpentine

Mark Laita (Author), William Vollmann (Introduction)

200 pages

Harry N. Abrams (February 26, 2013)

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