Within The Stone by Bill Atkinson

Rocks as ART!, December 26, 2009

If you are, like me, a rockhound or a gem and mineral lover you will love this book. Atkinson is one of the foremost artists in the genre of Rocks as Art.

More on Bill Atkinson – from the Product Description:
BILL ATKINSON completes his transition from whiz kid of Silicon Valley to high priest of Silica.

After helping to usher in the age of personal computing by designing the graphical user interface of the Macintosh computer, Atkinson turned his visual and technical talents to nature photography. While shooting in the Painted Desert, Atkinson became intrigued with the brilliant colors in the petrified wood littering the ground. He brought home some polished rock slabs, photographed them in natural color and without magnification, and was enthralled. The photographs looked more like paintings of forgotten dreams than either rocks or photographs. Atkinson went on to borrow and photograph thousands of art-quality stones at gem shows.
From these thousands of stones, Atkinson has picked for WITHIN THE STONE those seventy-two that yielded the most striking, the most poetic, and the most ineffable images. Many of the photographs suggest the styles of particular masters of modern painting: Klee, Klimt, Turner, O’Keefe.
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This book is page after page of gorgeous abstract artworks that just happen to be a polished surface of Mother Nature’s design.

Within the Stone will make a gorgeous coffee table book for gem and mineral lovers as well as abstract art followers.

To Order the Book or for more of Atkinson’s photography… http://www.billatkinson.com