Half Wild

Half Wild
Peter Happel Christian

Peter Happel Christian's debut monograph, Half Wild, borrows its title from a passage in Our National Parks, written in 1909 by John Muir, who contemplated the public's "growing interest in the care and preservation of forests and wild places in general, and in the half wild parks and gardens of towns." Using this phrase as a way of thinking about both his surroundings and photography itself, Happel Christian constructed the work that comprises Half Wild over the course of several years at his home in the Midwest and in Muir's home, Yosemite National Park. In her accompanying essay, Liz Sales discusses the relationship between the wilderness and photographic abstraction, a potentially limitless territory.

Production Specs 

Trim Size: 5.75x8.25in
Page Count: 112
Binding: Smyth Sewn
Format: Hardcover
Endpapers: 65#C Astrobrights (Galaxy Gold)
Printing: 4 Color
Paper Stock: 115#T Premium Silk Coated Ultra White, 60#T Uncoated Natural
Cover Material: Bookcloth (Starched Linen, Royal Blue)
Cover Details: Foil Stamp (Green), Inset Image

Colophon 

Essay: Liz Sales
Design: Studio Elana Schlenker
Photo Editor: Christina Labey

ISBN: 978-0-9908016-0-3
Publication Date: 2014
Edition Size: 750