To See: A Photographic Essay Based on the Writings of Thoreau - Softcover

As we enter a new century of dramatic changes in our ways of seeing and perceiving, the publication of To See offers an opportunity for readers to revisit the deeply poeticc and profound insights that Thoreau, nearly a century and a half ago, experienced and wrote about the natural world. The hauting and evocative black-and-white photographs of Helen Buttfield, who, with great artistry and sensitivity, brought together her own understanding and images of the natural world with those of Thoreau, are an inspiration for each of us to see what is always there-and somehow and always, beyond.

Richard Lewis is a teacher and writer—as well as the founder and director of The TouchstoneCenter for Children in New York City. In addition to his publications with Helen Buttfield, he has also collaborated in creating books with a variety of visual artists, among them beingEzra Jack Keats, Ashley Bryan, Debra Frasier, Ed Young, Noah Baen, Gigi Alvaré, ElizabethCrawford, Kathy Creutzburg, Heidi Neilson and Susan Share. He recently brought together his essays and writings on the imagination of childhood in When Thought is Young, LivingBy Wonder, and Taking Flight, Standing Still—as well as having a collection of his poems,Shaking the Grass for Dew, published by New Native Press.