Neil Folberg: Celestial Nights (signed edition)

This series of compelling night images of the land and skies of Israel offers the viewer mystical points of entry and departure. The world depicted in "Celestial Nights" is composed of a delicately constructed order in which earth and the heavens mirror each other. Folbergís photographs describe places where the spiritual is at once near, imprinted in the forms of the arid landscapes, and far away in the recesses of space. Neil Folberg, a former student and colleague of Ansel Adams, is renowned for landscapes and images of ìbuilt environments.î Born in San Francisco and raised in the Mid-west, Folberg has lived in Jerusalem since 1976. Timothy Ferris is the bestselling author of "Coming of Age in the Milky Way."
ìThe genius of these images is not in the revelation of any new truth, but in the expression of unsolvable equations. We are shown both realms of the visible universe, Earth and sky.î--"Astronomy," June 2002

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2005-06-15
Measurements: 9.8 x 13.1 x 0.6 inches
ISBN: 9781683951339

“The deserts of Israel, Egypt, and Jordan seem never to have sat for a lens quite as magical as Neil Folberg’s. Since 1979, Folberg has been focusing on the arid lands of these Mideast countries, capturing not only their dramatic contours but the dazzling light shows produced at night by the skies above them. . . Spectacular is not too effusive a word . . .” –Grace Glueck, “The New York Times”
.” . . a photographer who recreates the visceral sensation of walking around the countryside at night: conveying that moment when your body becomes extra sensitive to the soft sounds and movements.” –“The New York Times,” November 3, 2002
“With his latest series of images, Folberg’s superbly conceived and executed photographs capture the wondrous beauty, mystery and ecstatic grace of the nighttime desert bound under the celestial canopy of the heavens.” –“Black & White Magazine,” October 2002
“But what makes Folberg’s night skies so dazzling is the same thing that gives deep-sky astrophotographs their scientific worth: long exposures that record hundreds if not thousands of stars that are invisible to the naked eye.” –“American Photo,” November/December 2001
“The genius of these images is not in the revelation of any new truth, but in the expression of unsolvable equations. We are shown both realms of the visible universe, Earth and sky.” –“Astronomy,” June 2002
“Like his teacher, Ansel Adams, the American photographer Neil Folberg is an evangelist of nature.” –“Conde Nast Traveler,” October 2001

Timothy Ferris’s works include Seeing in the Dark, The Mind’s Sky (both New York Times best books of the year), and The Whole Shebang (listed by American Scientist as one of the one hundred most influential books of the twentieth century). A fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Ferris has taught in five disciplines at four universities. He is an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former editor of Rolling Stone. His articles and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Time, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, National Geographic, Scientific American, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, and many other publications. A contributor to CNN and National Public Radio, Ferris has made three prime-time PBS television specials: The Creation of the Universe, Life Beyond Earth, and Seeing in the Dark. He lives in San Francisco.