In the early 90s, shortly after moving from San Francisco to New Orleans, Richard Sexton began making black/white landscape photographs of the gulf coast. Over the years, he slowly added to this body of work that began in the coastal regions of Walton County, Florida, and eventually encompassed landscapes in and around New Orleans, in other areas of the Florida panhandle, southwest Georgia, and the Mississippi coast. After fifteen years, the potential for a book-length volume of work emerged. Sexton approached Chronicle Books, a publisher with which he had a long and successful history creating books devoted to architecture, design, lifestyle, and urbanism. Though there had been a lengthy and highly successful collaboration with Chronicle on books of a more commercial nature, Terra Incognita was somewhat different in that it was conceived as a fine art photography book. In Terra Incognita, Sexton's photographs are the central focus of the work.

Photographs and Preface by Richard Sexton
Foreword by J. Richard Gruber
Introduction by John Lawrence
Afterword by Randy Harelson
Book Design by Vanessa Dina
Published by Chronicle Books, San Francisco, Fall 2007
$50 hardcover retail
108 pages with 2 gatefolds
ISBN: 0-8118-5854-5

11" x 12"

Using both brilliant color and distinctive black & white photography, the Richter Gallery showcases elegant nature studies, architectural details, and jazz greats like Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald. Find memorable work by legends Berenice Abbott, David Fokos, Bruce Barnbaum, Richard Sexton, Jeffrey Seltzer, and Neil Leifer.