New John Wimberley book. Check it out.

[johnwimberley]

My new book "a metaphysic of Light" does indeed contain the entire underwater figurative series I made in 1981-1982. Included are such images as "Descending Angel", "Realization of Anima", "The Gift of Power", "Surrender to the Light", etc. The book is divided into four sections and they are in the third, interspersed with landscape photographs. My intent was to present them as "anima mundi", that is, spirits of nature.
"a metaphysic of Light contains a total of 69 photographs, some of which have never been exhibited. It includes all of the landscapes from the period 1970-1988 for which I'm best known, plus a number never before seen. It was a wonderful (and educational!) experience to go back through thousands of negatives and select those for this book.
I worked full time for 4 months to tweak the image files for best possible reproduction and I think that was a very successful effort. This is an artist-designed, limited edition, signed and numbered monograph that is guaranteed to become a collectors' item. It is being introduced to the world later this month by Point Light Gallery in Sydney, Australia, who are honoring me with a major retrospective exhibition.
Please feel free to post any additional questions and I'll do my best to answer them.
Thank you for your interest,
John Wimberley

[Darin Boville]

I was about to ask you to post a jpeg of the collectors edition print--but then I googled and found this from your site:

http://www.johnwimberleyphotography....p?image=JW-010

Is that the one you get for the fancy version?

--Darin

[johnwimberley]

Yes, that is the print. It is on archivally processed 14"x11" gelatin/silver paper, with my signature and numbered to match the book.
An interesting story about "Dunes and Horizontal Ripples, 1979, is that this image was used by computer programmers at George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic during the production of the Star Wars films. They put a print over their workstation as a perspective reference when creating computer generated imagery for the film.

[h2oman]

Thanks for the additional information, John.

[ArtRosen]

I was about to ask you to post a jpeg of the collectors edition print--but then I googled and found this from your site:

http://www.johnwimberleyphotography....p?image=JW-010

Is that the one you get for the fancy version?

--Darin

wow....

breathtaking.

[ghostcount]

wow....

breathtaking.

I just got mine and the print is amazing!!!

Thanks John.

[Brian K]

Where's a link to the book itself? I want to see the images.....

[Eric Woodbury]

Brian, I couldn't find it either. I don't think it exists...the link that is.

[ghostcount]

Here's the link to the "a metaphysic of Light photographs: 1970 - 1988" in the book section on Wimberly's site...

http://www.johnwimberleyphotography.com/books.html

The Collector's edition includes the "Dunes and Horizontal Ripples". It's fantastic.

[Robert Brummitt]

Send the link to those who have you on their shopping list. Great gift idea!