A self-described hard puppy to keep under the porch, photographer Burk Uzzle created the images in by traveling across the United States with his 8 x 10 camera, capturing the vivid, celebratory, sometimes eccentric personality of the American landscape in the unique style that has become his trademark. This large-format book marks Uzzles first major published series of color photographs.Burk Uzzle, on the photographs in this book: In most of these pictures I am exulting in Americas personality out on a limb with itself. That teeter-totter balance between logic and humor as the limb seems about to break also relates to how I strive for formally impeccable compositions but then have some loose lug nut rattling around somewhere in the frame, giving a subversive aspect to the dialogue between graphics and content. Its as if America and I try so hard to get everything right, but in spite of ourselves we invariably end up out on that limb, finding that often the only real salvation comes with a gentle chuckle and a sly, knowing smile. All my pictures seem to conclude that logic, while useful to a point, is by itself a bore. So we might as well have a little fun, even if its in between some tears. was born in 1938 in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is a former contract photographer and two-term president of Magnum Photos. His work has been published and exhibited internationally and is represented in many private and museum collections. Now an independent photographer based in Florida, he spends several months of each year traveling and photographing throughout the United States. , former photography critic for is one of the major voices in the world of photography. She is the author of, among many other works, and In 2006 Aperture published a collection of Goldbergs essays spanning twenty-five years. Goldberg writes frequently on photography and the arts for and other publications.