Bøger af Garrett Fisher

Despite highly prolific artistic output, there have been only two artists that Garrett Fisher is willing to ascribe as having any influence on his work. Ansel Adams is the more significant of the two, an iconic photographer of black and white images in the American West. Having followed in Mr. Adams conceptual footsteps (albeit with an airplane), Mr. Fisher's early aerial photography works were found in sometimes overlapping places in the boundless spaces of the American Rockies. It was always in the back of his mind "what Ansel Adams might have done if he had access to an airplane," as landscape scenes as seen laterally and from slightly above were of similar majesty. Long desirous to produce a work of black and white images, it was not until extensive exploits in the Alps with the same aircraft did the author discover a fusion of the two archetypes, allowing for the production of his first monochrome work, his 24th book. Containing 78 aerial images, the book focuses on sharp, scenic, and mystifying terrain found in the Swiss, French, and Italian Alps taken from a 1949 Piper PA-11.

There are smarter things to do with an underpowered airplane that dates from the 1940s than flying perilously close to rocky, vertical, glaciated terrain in the Tetons. Nonetheless, the author, like a moth to a flame, flew in and around every nook and cranny of Grand Teton National Park during all four seasons and in a variety of weather, photographing stunning scenery in equally as stunning perspectives. Often above, along, or just under the clouds, many angles of known and lesser known peaks and canyons look as though the images were taken from a nearby mountain. A shameless manifesto to Mr. Fisher's love of Grand Teton and mountains in general, the book contains 156 detailed aerial photographs that are pleasing to the eye for general audiences and useful information for climbers and mountain enthusiasts.

Ever since poring over photo books of national parks as a child, the author had a devotion to Yellowstone that one day was fulfilled for the first time when he flew over the park in his antique airplane. On a trip literally crossing most of the United States at a snail's pace, the scene left its mark, and the next year, he was living an hour south of the park, next to an airport, where frequent trips were made to Yellowstone and surrounding areas. The companion to "Yellowstone's Hot Springs: An Aviator's Perspective," the book contains 123 aerial photographs of mountains, rivers, hot springs, geysers, lakes, and scenic landscapes, accumulated over flights in multiple seasons, showing what the rest of Yellowstone looks like from the air.

There is quite possibly only one place where not only can a person see wild horses on the beach, one can share a home with them. The Northern Outer Banks of North Carolina contain a majestic wild horse herd that lives on a barrier island sandwiched between the Currituck Sound, the Atlantic Ocean, and undeveloped False Cape State Park, Virginia. Literally at the end of the road, North Carolina highway 12 becomes the beach, embarking on a thirteen-mile journey of sand roads, houses, and wild horses. The author spent five months living inside the horse preserve, intent on photographing the horses in their natural state, sharing them for all to enjoy. Containing 103 images, the book captures these magnificent creatures being themselves alongside the Atlantic Ocean, stirring the wild horse in all of us.

A place like no other in the United States, the Outer Banks of North Carolina are an ever-changing swirl of sand, ocean, currents, and sounds, an almost mystical series of barrier islands sticking out so far that the mainland cannot be seen. When the author first visited this place, he had an immediate attraction that grew even more when he flew his antique airplane down the length of the islands in 2011. Finding that there is more to be seen of the Outer Banks than most people realize, Garrett Fisher dragged his airplane out to the coast for almost six months, regularly flying the length of the Outer Banks to capture what he soon learned is an ever-changing tapestry of colors, capes, sand patterns, currents, and tidal flows, a place of near infinite variety on a daily basis. Intent on showing readers the part of the Outer Banks that they will not see from the ground, the book contains 99 images and detailed maps of photograph locations from Shackleford Banks to Virginia.

Home to the highest terrain in the eastern half of North America, North Carolina not only contains the highest summit on this side of the continent, Mt. Mitchell (6,684'), it shares a list of 40 peaks exceeding 6,000' in elevation with neighboring Tennessee. Although these mountains exceed in height the entire surface of the eastern half of the United States, many of the peaks are shrouded in majestic Canadian pine forests, with views curiously lacking. An avid hiker and high altitude enthusiast, the author found that hiking the high terrain wasn't enough; he wanted to see it from above. Author of a book doing the same for the 58 peaks over 14,000 feet in Colorado, Garrett Fisher took his high flying expertise and brought it to the Southeast, showing the stunning beauty of the Appalachians from above them, all using a 1949 Piper PA-11 antique airplane. Containing detailed maps and 80 images, the book contains images of every single peak over 6,000' and is both a guide for mountain enthusiasts and a pleasant journey among giants for everyone else.

Stretching almost 500 miles, the Blue Ridge Parkway is a work of art in itself, a road passing through the highest terrain in the Southeast and snaking along the Blue Ridge Mountains. Sandwiched on both sides by national parks with their own scenic highways, the author found that his personal passion for these parkways couldn't be contained by driving them alone. Called by stunning views and aggressive terrain, Garrett Fisher flew his 1949 Piper PA-11 from Gatlinburg, TN to Front Royal, VA photographing the Parkway from above. Intent on capturing the true essence of the foreboding terrain surrounding the Parkway, the author battled menacing cloud formations and wind on multiple flights to capture scenes that best represent the experience: mystical, stunning, majestic, and beautiful. Containing detailed maps and 83 images, the book is a journey from the air of the Blue Ridge Parkway, US 441 in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park, and Cherohala Skyway in southwest North Carolina.

On a happenstance flight across Western North Carolina many years ago, Garrett Fisher decided to do something unusual and point his camera straight down on some eye-catching agricultural patterns. What resulted was a virtual tapestry from the air and began a multiple year odyssey of photographing patterns and textures found in fields across America. Piloting an extremely simple aircraft that itself was a crop duster in the 1940s and 1950s, the author took a Piper Cub on a wild journey from the Atlantic Coast to the Appalachians, Great Plains, and ranchlands of the Mountain West. Containing 138 images taken from twelve states spread over three time zones, 'Field of Dreams' is a journey in the visually unexpected.

Caught between the parties of a German love triangle, the author found himself looking for a new place to live in Germany, and decided to live life on the edge and move to Spain....without researching much of anything first. Dragging his Piper Cub with him, he flew across France into the Spanish Pyrenees, landing for the first time in an idyllically beautiful place called La Cerdanya, and then commenced bothering to figure out what the place was like. Garrett Fisher's 14th book, 'The First 100 Days' is a pictorial story showing aerial photographs from the first one hundred flights taken over France, Andorra, and Spain, showing incredible beauty of from the Pyrenees, Mediterranean, South of France, Spanish deserts, and a host of destinations in between.

Català / Français / Español / EnglishLa Cerdanya és una ampla vall d'altitud encamellada entre Espanya i França, als Pirineus orientals. Aquesta vall pastoral, mediterrània i alpina alhora, situada en la intersecció de diverses zones climàtiques, compta amb nombrosos poblets agrícoles i turístics. La majoria d'aquests bastions de la civilització estan disposats de manera única, sovint artística, segons una ordenació urbanística integrada amb el camp de l'entorn. Durant uns quants anys, Garrett Fisher sortia de l'Aeròdrom de la Cerdanya per sobrevolar aquests pobles amb el seu antic aeroplà, així anà integrant el paisatge amb una perspectiva aèria. Malgrat la seva aversió per la fotografia amb interferències humanes, a poc a poc li va resultar inevitable convertir aquests assentaments en art. El llibre consisteix en una selecció de 148 imatges, amb un text introductori en francès, anglès, català i castellà, que mostra gairebé tots els pobles de la Cerdanya francesa i espanyola.La Cerdagne est une haute plaine à cheval entre l'Espagne et la France dans les Pyrénées-Orientales. Plaine pastorale, méditerranéenne et alpine à la fois, à la croisée de différentes zones climatiques, elle est parsemée de nombreux petits villages agricoles et touristiques. Beaucoup de ces bastions de la civilisation sont aménagés de manière unique, avec souvent beaucoup de goût et un flair pour un aménagement urbain intégrant la campagne environnante. Pendant plusieurs années, Garrett Fisher a décollé de l'Aérodrome de la Cerdagne avec son Piper Cub de 1949 pour survoler ces villages et capturer le paysage depuis les nuages. Malgré son aversion à photographier des lieux portant la marque de l'homme, il n'a pas longtemps résisté à la tentation de créer de l'art à partir de ces lieux de vie. Contenant 148 images avec un texte d'introduction en français, anglais, catalan et espagnol, ce livre vous transporte en images au-dessus de presque tous les villages de la Cerdagne, des deux côtés des Pyrénées.La Cerdaña es un amplio valle a gran altitud que se extiende entre España y Francia en los Pirineos orientales. Se encuentra en la intersección de muchas zonas climáticas, es un valle pastoral, mediterráneo y alpino al mismo tiempo, con numerosos pueblecitos agrícolas y turísticos. Muchos de estos bastiones de la civilización están dispuestos de manera única, a menudo artística, con un estilo de ordenación urbana que se integra en el campo circundante. Durante varios años, Garrett Fisher partía del Aeródromo de la Cerdaña para sobrevolar estas poblaciones con su antiguo avión, de manera que integraba el paisaje desde la perspectiva aérea. A pesar de su aversión a la fotografía con implicaciones humanas, con el tiempo no pudo evitar crear arte a partir de estos asentamientos. El libro, compuesto por 148 imágenes y texto introductorio en francés, inglés, catalán y español, visita casi todos los pueblos de la Cerdaña francesa y española.La Cerdanya is a wide, high altitude valley straddling Spain and France in the eastern Pyrenees. Found at the intersection of many climate zones, it is a pastoral, Mediterranean, and alpine valley all at the same time, with many small agricultural and vacation villages. Many of these outposts of civilization are laid out in unique, often artistic ways, with a flair for urban layout that integrates with the surrounding countryside. Based for a number of years at Aeròdrom de la Cerdanya, Garrett Fisher regularly overflew these villages with his antique airplane, taking in the scene from the aerial perspective. Despite his aversion to photography with human involvement, it became irresistible over time to avoid making art out of these settlements. Containing 148 images with introductory text in French, English, Catalan, and Spanish, the book includes nearly every village in French and Spanish Cerdanya.

The Bernese Alps of the Swiss Alps contain renowned and iconic scenery in Switzerland, including the Jungfrau, Eiger, and Mönch, standing tall over Grindelwald and Interlaken. The range is also an epicenter of the largest glacier in Continental Europe, at 23 kilometers long, with a host of many other significant alpine glaciers. All of them are melting and doing so rapidly, succumbing to the realities of climate change. Recent Swiss university studies indicate that only one will remain as a sliver of its present majestic size by 2100. "Glaciers of the Bernese Alps" is a comprehensive work containing close and intimate aerial images of nearly all remaining glacial features in the range, taken from a small antique airplane manufactured in 1949. His second major glacial work, Garrett Fisher piloted the airplane, took the photographs, and wrote the text, a book dedicated to the beauty of these alpine features which are rapidly disappearing. Containing 178 images, viewers are shown glaciers from angles that would take a lifetime to savor on the ground, a lifetime that we do not have before they will be gone.

Join the author on a journey photographing Colorado's 58 peaks over 14,000 feet from a 1949 Piper PA-11 antique aircraft. Useful to hikers, mountain enthusiasts, and anyone who likes pretty pictures, the book is part photo journey, part art, as each image presents the overwhelming beauty of every one of these foreboding peaks. Organized by mountain range, the book contains detailed maps, an index of where to find each peak, and data on image orientation relative to the 14ers. Containing over 111 images, the author also shares his stories of adventure to create the book: flying by the seat of his pants with a map, no heat, and no radio.

The beauty of Jackson Hole is no mystery to millions of tourists and skiers that visit Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks or partake of world-class winter sports. To the author, most of the area is missed as it is hidden away from roads, behind mountains, deep in the backcountry, or otherwise overlooked for favor of the highlights of the area. Spending hundreds of hours flying an underpowered and uncomfortable antique airplane through every nook and cranny of Northwest Wyoming, including its mountain ranges and wilderness areas, Flying Jackson Hole is a photography atlas filled with stunning aerial imagery of the beauty of Jackson Hole and surrounding areas, as taken in a variety of weather conditions and during all four seasons, showing angles available only to the most intrepid of hikers and aviators.

Since he was very young, Garrett Fisher stared longingly at books on America's National Parks, focusing eventually on Yellowstone as one of his favorites. Decades later, he had the chance to live nearby with an antique airplane restored by his grandfather, flying over the expansive park during all four seasons, with a special focus on the vast array of colorful geothermal hot springs. Perplexed by the inability to get as close as he would have liked on the ground, Garrett took to the air to find and photograph as many hot springs as he could, resulting in a book with 129 stunning aerial images of hundreds of the park's iconic geothermal features.

The birthplace of the Colorado River is not one place in the Colorado Mountains; it is half of the mountains in the state, steep unforgiving alpine terrain with majestic amounts of snow. Largely off limits except to the most adventurous, the author set out to bring the source of one of the most controversial water sources in the country to anyone who wants to see it. Containing 95 images, the book is an aerial photography documentation of the Upper Colorado, Roaring Fork, Blue, Gunnison, Eagle, Yampa, and Uncompaghre River Basins as well as the mountain ranges that feed them, in stunning detail and beauty, all taken from an antique aircraft during the Colorado spring melt. Containing 7 river basin maps with detailed information and locations of photographs, the book is a useful resource for those doing research and also a work of art simply to be enjoyed. The author also scales a 13,000 foot mountain on foot to show how melt water rapidly descends almost 4,000 feet from the peak to become part of the river system and into the Colorado itself.

Extreme Autumn: Fall in Colorado is an energetic rendition of what is otherwise a serene season. Forget gentle ponds with floating leaves. Toss the countryside red barn and maple tree out the door. And don't even think about that orange maple tree gracing a burial preplanning pamphlet. This is autumn Colorado Rockies style: high altitude, extreme, dangerous, and thought-provoking.Focusing on areas above 8,000 feet, the book delivers autumn from a plethora of angles: steep mountainsides, high-altitude lake shores, under full moon, river beds, in the snow, and best of all: from above with an airplane. There is nothing ordinary about fall here - it is filled with contrast at every turn - gentle and harsh, warm and cold, summery and in the snow. Some aspen stands nurse forest wildlife, other trees are a stubborn symbol of defiance growing on top of a rock glacier.Containing over 80 images, the book is an excellent way to enjoy all that autumn in Colorado has to offer without risking your life.

One of the realities of pursuing artistic avocations is the inevitable sense of frustration, bewilderment, disappointment, and resignation at the process of attempting to gain recognition or cash from the product of creative pursuits. Egged on by a supportive and enthusiastic audience that found his work to be nothing short of extraordinary, Garrett Fisher set aside his calloused cynicism with the art world and actually bothered to make a submission to the Luxembourg Art Prize in 2020. Admittedly, a 50,000 prize for the winner was compelling, as were published statistics that revealed the chance of being selected as a finalist were adequately high. As lockdown continued along, the submission grew larger and larger, with more works and more text explaining artistic process behind the acquisition of a large collection of aerial photographs from two continents. Worried that the process had gotten out of control, Mr. Fisher decided to put the submission into a book and release it, no matter what the outcome.Spoiler alert: He did not win, nor was he selected as a finalist, which gave his sardonicism renewed vigor. Nonetheless, 100 images with adjoining text for each one, including the introductory essay written to the Art Prize has been included, along with a "love letter to the art world" identifying the complex, contradictory, and otherwise impossible facets of attempting to get noticed while at the same time causing explosions of glee in the minds of the viewers of his work. Spanning 2014 to 2020, "My Struggle" is the most comprehensive, varied, and thorough demonstration of Garrett Fisher's artwork, with the largest body of explanatory text yet in existence related to his images.

American Texture is a national aerial photography work, now the author's 12th book. Instead of focusing on specific regional subjects as in the past, Garrett Fisher has included images acquired spanning a multi-year period while working on a variety of projects, bringing together a work that covers from the Atlantic Ocean to the glaciers of Montana, with deserts, farmland, wildlife, high mountain peaks, wilderness, open range, lakes, and rivers in between. Containing 151 images focusing on textures and patterns as found in these legendary landscapes, the book reveals unexpected perspectives found within areas better known for scenic landscape imagery, while doing so from the near-field perspective afforded by an old and slow aircraft. Searching for years and thousands of miles for mathematical and artistic beauty as seen from the air, Garrett had an eye for the unusual, from an abnormal angle, of the unexpected. The result was crossing America multiple times, the ground beneath having turned into a canvas from the sky.

When Mr. Fisher first visited the Colorado Rockies in 2005, it was a verdant land of lush mountain forests. By the time he got around to moving there in 2013, sections of the place had turned into a veritable wasteland, with much of the forests having been obliterated by, of all things, a tiny beetle. Surprised but undeterred, an adventure began in an antique airplane that would later involve living near Yellowstone in Wyoming, wandering a good portion of the Intermountain West at mind-numbingly slow speeds and relatively low to the ground, camera in one hand, and aircraft controls in the other. While chasing down a long list of Western scenery, a collection of expansive photographs accumulated of Rocky Mountain forests from the Canadian border to Southern Colorado. Scenery varied from forests in complete health, total devastation, and everything in between, with the entire experience as majestic as one might expect. Containing 155 aerial images, Winds of Change is an exhibition of natural Western scenery that includes national parks, mountain ranges, wilderness areas, and national forests and is an education on the nature of our treasured public lands in the West, in both their distress and vibrant health.

After years of mountain flying and publishing books of aerial photography subjects, a reality of publishing set in, that marketability restricts editorial focus to a list of the most obvious subjects. While that may be a boon to the economics of book publishing, it restricts the freedom of artistic expression, including the revelation of locales and images that do not make it into prime categories, yet would be desirable to many that love an area. Taking a new approach to editorial constraint, the author decided to publish a compendium of aerial images taken in the Alps, with no editorial criteria other than captivating beauty and geographic association anywhere within the mountain range. A form of artistic conversation, "Abstractions of the Alps" contains 121 aerial images, documenting the author's continuing aerial photography process along with aesthetically intriguing imagery located in Switzerland, Italy, and France at altitudes higher than the highest peak to as low as the vineyards growing in the valleys.

After having published 23 books relating to aerial photography, a thought lingered in Garrett Fisher's mind during many ensuing flights: is it possible to produce an entire book from the photographs from one flight? While it was a source of philosophical musing for some time, the reality is that the aircraft used for photographs flies slowly and has only three hours of flying time before fuel exhaustion. With the demands of variety, quality, and a reasonable level of interest, it had not until this point crossed Mr. Fisher's mind to try. On one illustrious flight in the Bernese Alps of Switzerland after a summer snowfall, well into the flight where it was nearing its conclusion, he decided that this was the one, turning the airplane past the airport, wringing extra minutes out of the flight while over magnificent terrain. Long told by passengers and friends that rides taken in the airplane were "one of the best experiences of [their] lives," the work conveys the magnitude of what it is like to ride along in the airplane in some of the world's more majestic scenery while aerial photography is taking place with furious passion. Containing 118 images, the book presents stunning imagery in chronological order, with written anecdotes explaining key sections of the flight and the process behind it, as it proceeded from Gstaad Airport, over Interlaken, Susten Pass, around Titlis, and then back along the Winterberg Massif, Triftgletscher, and the north faces of the major Bernese Alps peaks south of Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen, including the Jungfrau. It continues west until the French-speaking section of the country, rounding the bend at Les Diablerets before crossing Sanetschpass and landing back at Gstaad Airport in the late evening, tucked in the Bernese Oberland.

Driven by a love of glaciers and a need to see them before they disappear, Garrett Fisher piloted his 1949 antique airplane across the mountains of Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana, photographing remaining glaciers in the American Rockies. From Rocky Mountain National Park to the Wind River Range, Grand Teton National Park, Yellowstone, and Glacier National Park, the Rockies contain a surprising number of glaciers tucked away in wilderness areas...that is, until they are gone. Scientists predict that many of these treasures will disappear not only in our lifetimes, but in the near future.A feat of aviation, Mr. Fisher gets up close and personal with glaciers glued to the sides of rocky summits, flying as high as 15,000 feet while getting buffeted by strong winds and extreme cold, all the while hoping the propeller would keep spinning, as many of these mountain ranges were in wilderness bear country. His airplane lacks heat, weighs less than 800 pounds, and produces 100 horsepower on a good day.Containing 177 aerial images, the book is organized by mountain range, with detailed maps identifying the location of each photograph. With images ranging from scenic landscapes to detailed zooms of glacial texture, the work appeals to hikers, scientists, or anyone who loves the great outdoors.

The author's 4th aerial texture book and 23rd book overall, 'Mountain Texture' is a comprehensive gallery of aerial images taken of glaciers found in Switzerland, France, and Italy. Utilizing a light antique airplane from the WWII era, images of these majestic glaciers show patterns, textures, and details of massive formations of ice, from the intimate perspective of an aircraft flying slowly above. While the glaciers themselves are in the process of recession and extinction, they remain literal rivers of ice that carve immense alpine topography. In their natural cycles of movement, they present themselves as unique and ever-changing works of art, difficult to appreciate through ordinary means on the ground or from satellites above. Containing 167 aerial images, 'Mountain Texture' presents virtually unrepeatable views of countless glaciers of the Alps, whether from the perspective closely above, annual flows in ice, or the effects of climate change.

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