Synopses & Reviews
Fall, the second powerHouse Books monograph by award-winning photographer Christopher Griffith, is a lavish, luscious volume of foliage at it's most autumn-escent. The idea for Fall came to Griffith while he was living in a Manhattan brownstone, finalizing the design for his first monograph, States (powerHouse Books, 2000). He has now perfected the technique of both photographing the foliage and getting them to his studio and on film before they wilt or turn brown, quite a feat as many of these fresh and delicate leaves were collected and transported personally by Griffith from hundreds of miles away. Fall features a hyper-macroscopic analysis of the color transformations characteristic of tree foliage in the Northeastern United States autumn with vivid and brilliant images of nature's gifts, which we often take for granted. Fantastically backlit, glowing colors are transmitted through the leaves, illustrating structural and textural elements of nature never before captured on film.