San Francisco: Modernism Gallery, Jan-Mar 2013 — Elena Dorfman: Empire Falling

Bologna, Italy, Damian Editore, 2013. Hardcover. Color illus. padded cloth, 95 pp. many color illus. Issued in conjunction with an exhibition at the Modernism Gallery in San Francisco in 2013. "Empire Falling is artist Elena Dorfman’s most recent series of photographs, conceptual landscape images exploring the abandoned and active rock quarries of the Midwest, in Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana. Combining images made over the course of several years and numerous locations, the work presents a contemporary view of an ancient–though evolving–landscape." (artist's web site) A lovely book to hold in one's hands. VG .