{"product_id":"ghostlight-9781477326558","title":"Ghostlight","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of otherworldly photographs of Southern wetlands featuring an original ghost story.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Southern wetlands, with their moss-draped trees and dark water obscuring mysteries below, are eerily beautiful places, home to ghost stories and haunting, ethereal light. The newest collection from award-winning photographer Keith Carter, \u003ci\u003eGhostlight\u003c\/i\u003e captures the otherwordly spirits of swamps, marshes, bogs, baygalls, bayous, and fens in more than a hundred photographs. \u003cp\u003e From Ossabaw Island, Georgia, to his home ground of East Texas, Carter seeks \"the secretive and mysterious\" of this often-overlooked landscape: wisps of fog drifting between tree branches; faceless figures contemplating a bog; owls staring directly at the camera lens; infinite paths leading to unknown parts. Similarly, spectral images are evoked in the original short story that opens this book. Ghostlight, writes best-selling author Bret Anthony Johnston, \"hovers, darts, disappears. It can be as mean as a cottonmouth, as mischievous aes a child. The closer you get, the farther the light recedes.\" A masterpiece of \"Bayou Gothic,\" \u003ci\u003eGhostlight\u003c\/i\u003e challenges our perceptions and invites us to experience the beauty of this elusive world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeith Carter teaches photography at Lamar University, where he is a Regents Professor and holds the Endowed Walles Chair of Visual and Performing Arts. He is the author of twelve previous books, including several with UT Press: \u003ci\u003eFrom Uncertain to Blue, Ezekiel's Horse, Fireflies\u003c\/i\u003e and a retrospective, \u003ci\u003eKeith Carter: Fifty Years.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBret Anthony Johnston is the internationally best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eRemember Me Like This\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCorpus Christi: Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the director of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50725715738898,"sku":"9781477326558","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_383c37d1-136c-47c0-957a-86b873203574.jpg?v=1734840785","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ghostlight-9781477326558","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}