Splendor Illustration notes and bits of everyday

notes and bits of everyday ephemera as well as photographs

giving her dignity

we once again see Joan Miró working in his studio

which were taken with an 8-by-10-inch view camera

with the vision of the difficult world they embody

Splendor Illustration notes and bits of everydayIt took Courtney Allen more than half a decade, and thousands of miles of travel across a dozen states, to make the pictures that comprise her debut monograph Splendor. As the title implies, there is an undeniable sense of glory and of grandeur in the American landscape. If we can understand the capacity for beauty in any situation, it is there, she says. It is a primary and universal experience. And yet, attending the light there is always a