Balog, James. Tree: A New Vision of the American Forest. Photographs by James Balog.

Sterling, 2004. First edition, first printing; fine with fine protected dust jacket. 182 pages, three foldouts.  Foreword by David Friend.  Includes Balog’s photographs of trees in black-and-white and in color, often employing composite prints of multiple images and some panoramas.  A winner of the Leica Medal of Excellence and the first photographer to selected to design United States postage stamps, Balog has been widely acclaimed for his innovative photography. His previous books included Survivor: A New Vision of Endangered Wildlife, Animal, Wildlife Requiem, Anima, and James Balog’s Animals A to Z.  Born in 1952, Balog is the founder and director of Earth Vision Institute in Boulder, Colorado.