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The Whisper of a Million Leaves.
Photographs by Beatrice Haverich. Introduction by Jon Snow.
Damiani, Bologna, 2006.
120 pp.,
100 color illustrations,
11x11".
Publisher's Description
Beatrice Haverich believes that “trees embody life.
They show us the seasons in a city landscape, and
they provide us with wood, food and shelter. Their
silence demands our respect.” Her subjects, for
whom she has the utmost sympathy, are survivors,
stalwarts: for example, the Yew trees in Kingsley
Vale, UK, are 4,000 years old. Among these portraits,
she observes branches molded by the wind
into lopsided hairstyles, and roots exposed by the
rain. Some trees survive in cement planters or
remain in the bounds of their sidewalk squares, but
others reclaim their habitat, taking over old greenhouses
and popping the glass panes one by one as
they grow. Up from sand and boulders and cliffs
and pavement, Haverich’s trees are shaped by their
landscape, but they persist in shaping it as well.
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