Dutton Books
Titles appearing in Art Book News Annual — February 2008
Postcards from Mars; the first photographer on the red planet.
Bell, Jim.
Dutton Books, ©2006 196 p. $55.00 QB641
0-525-94985-2
Bell led the team that built the "Pancam" cameras installed on the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity. The some 100 double-page (and some fold-out) prints collected here depict the preparation of those missions as well as the stark Martian panoramas captured in images both single and composite, both real- and false-color. Bell applies his sensibilities as a lifetime landscape photographer to select artful and varied depictions of the texture of the Red Planet. The book is oversize: 11.75x11.75 inches. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
