Spectacular Alaska

by Dana Levy (Designer), Letitia Burns O'Connor (Editor), Anne G. Walsh (Editor)

In Spectacular Alaska nearly 200 color photographs, some folding out to three feet in length, capture all of its majestic Mt. McKinley, the highest point in North America at 20,320 feet; the lush rainforests of Glacier Bay that receive more rainfall per year than the Amazon region; and innumerable bays, inlets, and sounds along its 34,000 miles of shoreline. Add bald eagles, walruses, moose, puffins, whales, wolves, Dall sheep, and the Alaskan brown bear, and you have a land so vast and wide-ranging that it could be adequately described only in a book this size. Spectacular Alaska is a celebration of all that is Alaska, and some of the world's best landscape photographers reveal its rich and diverse life in these oversized pages.

131 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1998

About the author

Born in Tel Aviv, Dana Levy lives and works in New York and Tel Aviv. Levy received her post-graduate at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Scotland (1998) and her B.A. from Camberwell College of Art in London (1997).

Levy works with video and digital photography, and deals mostly with memory, identity, and home, often as a temporary place. Her latest works include mostly nature, still life and animals. Her photographic series “Habitat” and the video “Disengagement,” were produced during Israel’s disengagement from Gaza. In both, she explores the challenge of expressing emotion with the absence of people. In her recent work, “The Wake," Levy released 100 live butterflies in the Entomology department of a natural history museum. For her, "the work explores themes such as revolution, awakening from suppression, resurrection, transition, and most of all - freedom."