Donald Ross Photography

[Merg Ross]

Sasse Museum of Art has published an e-book devoted to the photography of Donald Ross, my father. The chronology tells the story, the photographs speak for themselves.

https://view.publitas.com/inland-empire-museum-of-art/donald-ross-photography-from-the-collection/page/1

[Tin Can]

Congratulations!

Looks great!

[Salmo22]

A wonderful e-book and dedication to your father. Congratulations Merg.

[Alan Curtis]

Thanks Merg
For those of us that have only seen a few of your fathers photograph, this is a real treat.

[Richard Wasserman]

Very beautiful—congratulations Merg. This is a wonderful tribute to your father

[diversey]

A beautiful book! Enjoyed reading and looking at it. Thanks!

[Jim Fitzgerald]

Awesome Merg, thank you.

[Steve Goldstein]

That's a beautiful book. Do you know if there are any plans to distribute it in hard copy?

[Merg Ross]

Thank you, all.

Steve, no plans for a hard copy.

Best,
Merg

[Doremus Scudder]

Beautiful images. I'll spend some time with them.

Doremus

[Drew Wiley]

Very nice. I see a real connection with your own work, Merg, and Brett's too.

[Roger Thoms]

Merg, thanks for posting, really enjoyed the book, any chance the will be hard copies available?

Roger

[jmdavis]

Merg,

This is an excellent book. The only problem is that I now want to see these prints in person and I am across the continent.

When I read the intro about house building, I immediately wondered about Brett Weston's house. The closing gave me my answer.

My favorite line though is "Like all artists worth their eyes, he worked until he got it simple." It relates to a quote that I learned by Antoine de Saint-Exupery many years ago and still struggle with mastering, “Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to Take Away”. It loops back to my thoughts on the book about your father in relation to simplicity through a Zen Class 36 years ago and Shenryu Suzuki's and "Zen Mind, Beginners Mind."

[Ken Lee]

Splendid !

[Peter Lewin]

Wonderful book! I have to look at it again, there are images which remind me of the work of a number of your father's contemporaries, some of whom probably influenced him, and perhaps some influenced by him. I also never realized that you were born with photography in your blood! To repeat, wonderful work.

[Pieter]

Thanks for posting. I really enjoyed the book. I was surprised and delighted to see the lead photo was of Lake Atitlan in Guatemala from 1970. I was there in the early '70s as the assistant on a travelogue about Guatemala. Did your father ever make it to Chichicastenango?

[Graham Patterson]

{speechless} 8-)

[h2oman]

Like son, like father!

[Keith Fleming]

Merg,

Congratulations and many thanks for the link to your father's eBook. I bookmarked the link so I can go back through his images again and again. Impressive work!

Keith

[archphotofisher]

thanks for posting this!!!

[Merg Ross]

Thanks for posting. I really enjoyed the book. I was surprised and delighted to see the lead photo was of Lake Atitlan in Guatemala from 1970. I was there in the early '70s as the assistant on a travelogue about Guatemala. Did your father ever make it to Chichicastenango?

Pieter, sorry, I don't have the answer.

Thanks everyone for your comments. These prints were all from the estate of Dody Weston Thompson. They fall short of showing the breadth of my father's work, lacking many of his favorites. However, several hundred are in museum collections, and occasionally appear in exhibitions and auctions.

[MIke Sherck]

What tremendous vision! I see where you got it from.

[Ray Van Nes]

What a beautiful book and tribute to your father.