Life of a Mountain Hut

Hueneke, Klaus
Life of a Mountain Hut

Life of a Mountain Hut

Hueneke, Klaus

$29.95

In stock

Where does the social life of Australia’s high country occur? Ski-tourers and alpine walkers, striving for shelter and ahead of dusk or bad weather, can be profoundly un-chatty; and tents are mostly poor places for conversation. It is inside the high country’s huts that society flourishes. (I think Klaus must have got most of his conversations off a fly on a hut’s rafters.)

As a photographer, he knows that the narrowest aperture can give the greatest depth of field; and he has brilliantly chosen the narrow peephole of a single hut - ironically, one that burnt down in 2020 before he had completed its story - and must surely be re-built now to sample, across the decades, the vast saga of mountain folk and mountain stories.
A triumph!
Mark O’Connor, poet, author of Tilting at Snowgums

Author:   Hueneke, Klaus
ISBN:  

9780646825809


Publication Date:   18 November 2020
Availability:  
This item is in stock and will be dispatched immediately.

Table of Contents

Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Where does the social life of Australia’s high country occur? Ski-tourers and alpine walkers, striving for shelter and ahead of dusk or bad weather, can be profoundly un-chatty; and tents are mostly poor places for conversation. It is inside the high country’s huts that society flourishes. (I think Klaus must have got most of his conversations off a fly on a hut’s rafters.)

As a photographer, he knows that the narrowest aperture can give the greatest depth of field; and he has brilliantly chosen the narrow peephole of a single hut - ironically, one that burnt down in 2020 before he had completed its story - and must surely be re-built now to sample, across the decades, the vast saga of mountain folk and mountain stories.
A triumph!
Mark O’Connor, poet, author of Tilting at Snowgums

Product Details
Author:   Hueneke, Klaus
ISBN:  

9780646825809


Publication Date:   18 November 2020
Availability:  
This item is in stock and will be dispatched immediately.
Reviews

Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!