Eliot Porter’s dazzling photographs pick out natural patterns – fans
of cooling lava or waves of orange lichen on a rock in Nature’s Chaos (Scribners,
pp 125, 16.95 Pounds) – and James Gleick praises the pleasure of ‘peculiarly
patterned disorder’.
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