彼得•马西斯以其拍摄美丽的高山景色和令人惊叹的冬季运动员的照片而闻名，在这本书中，他选择黑白胶片来表现雪的本质。马西斯在文中回忆了每一次拍摄的实例，很多次拍摄都需要背着近五十斤重的装备在山里跋涉几天。马西斯的照片完美地再现了刺骨的寒冷、炽热的阳光、深邃的阴影和刺眼的灯光，让人联想到安塞尔•亚当斯和爱德华•韦斯顿的作品。

Renowned for his gorgeous mountain scenes and spectacular photos of winter athletes, Peter Mathis has chosen black and white film to capture the essence of snow in this book. These stunning duotone images render a traditional Alpen landscape into painterly canvases that are in turns otherworldly, sensuous, haunting, and heavenly. Skiers' tracks zig and zag through the powder and windswept waves of snow undulate like desert sand. Impeccably reproduced in large, full-

bleed format, these images showcase an enormous palette, from the deepest black to the most immaculate white, and every imaginable tone in between. Mathis' texts recall the instances of each shot, many of which require days of trekking through mountains with nearly fifty pounds of equipment strapped to his back. Reminiscent of the works of Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, Mathis's photographs perfectly evoke the biting cold, blazing sun, deep shadows, and blinding lights that make the Alps a uniquely beautiful landscape and snow a powerful force of nature.