Tamra L. Dempsey | Photography » TREES AND THE MUSCLED MOUNTANS http://www.tamradempsey.com Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:06:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Pastures of Heaven http://www.tamradempsey.com/trees_and_the_muscled_mountains/pastures-of-heaven/ http://www.tamradempsey.com/trees_and_the_muscled_mountains/pastures-of-heaven/#comments Fri, 06 Aug 2010 07:54:45 +0000 admin http://www.tamradempsey.com/?p=19 ~ Pastures of Heaven ~

These green clad hills, as lovely as a psalm, are said to be the ones that John Steinbeck based his setting for Pastures of Heaven upon.

excerpt from A Journey Through Literary America | chapter on John Steinbeck

Corral de Tierra, California
March 2008 [ Digital ]
Trees and the Muscled Mountains
Exhibition Item #1
Released: August 6, 2010
Limited Edition of 10
Price: $500
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An old car sits in a Salinas agricultural field and we remember John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.

excerpt from A Journey Through Literary America | chapter on John Steinbeck

Salinas, California
March 2008 [ Digital ]
Trees and the Muscled Mountains
Exhibition Item #2
Released: August 6, 2010
Limited Edition of 10
Price: $375
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“The vegetables grew crisp and green in their line-sraight rows.”

— John Steinbeck
Pastures of Heaven, 1932
excerpt from A Journey Through Literary America | chapter on John Steinbeck

Salinas, California
March 2008 [ Digital ]
Trees and the Muscled Mountains
Exhibition Item #3
Released: August 6, 2010
Limited Edition of 10
Price: $475
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For Steinbeck this outpost at the western tip of the continent was a moody spot that epitomized loneliness.

excerpt from A Journey Through Literary America | chapter on John Steinbeck

Pacific Grove, California
March 2007 [ Digital ]
Trees and the Muscled Mountains
Exhibition Item #4
Released: August 6, 2010
Limited Edition of 10
Price: $475
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My ghost you needn’t look for; it is probably
Here, but a dark one, deep in the granite, not dancing
on wind

— Robinson Jeffers
“Tor House,” 1926-28
excerpt from A Journey Through Literary America | chapter on Robinson Jeffers

Carmel, California
March 2007 [ Digital ]
Trees and the Muscled Mountains
Exhibition Item #5
Released: August 6, 2010
Limited Edition of 10
Price: $800
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The rocky surf close to Robinson Jeffers’s Tor House. Once he arrived in Carmel, Jeffers felt he had arrived at his “inevitable place.”

excerpt from A Journey Through Literary America | chapter on Robinson Jeffers

Big Sur, California
March 2007 [ Digital ]
Trees and the Muscled Mountains
Exhibition Item #6
Released: August 6, 2010
Limited Edition of 10
Price: $625
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Ed Ricketts’ lab, 800 Cannery Row.

excerpt from A Journey Through Literary America | chapter on John Steinbeck

Monterey, California
March 2008 [ Digital ]
Trees and the Muscled Mountains
Exhibition Item #7
Released: August 6, 2010
Limited Edition of 10
Price: $275
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San Miguel, California
April 1992 [ Film ]
Trees and the Muscled Mountains
Exhibition Item #8
Released: August 6, 2010
Limited Edition of 10
Price: $625
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from A Journey Through Literary America | Reeling Westward

Big Sur, California
March 2007 [ Digital ]
Trees and the Muscled Mountains
Exhibition Item #9
Released: August 6, 2010
Limited Edition of 10
Price: $275
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Pent up behind mountains: Growing up in Asheville, Max Perkins wrote, “a boy of Wolfe’s imagination imprisoned there could think that what was beyond was all wonderful.” And yet it is the portrait he created of Asheville that is the greatest wonder.

excerpt from A Journey Through Literary America | chapter on Thomas Wolfe

Ashville, North Carolina
November 2007 [ Digital ]
Trees and the Muscled Mountains
Exhibition Item #10
Released: August 6, 2010
Limited Edition of 10
Price: $800
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