In a Sea of Dreams
 by Christopher Newbert & Birgitte Wilms

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Winner - 1996 World Grand Prize for Best Book of Underwater Photography

Within a Rainbowed Sea
 by Christopher Newbert

The Most Honored Photographic Book Ever Published
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Presidential Gift of State - The Reagan Administration

Gold Medal for Best Photography - Art Directors Club of New York

Gold Medal for Best Book Design - Art Directors Club of New York

Best Book of the Year - Printing Industries of America

STA 100 Award - Society of Typographic Arts

10th Anniversary Gift Book Selection - International Center for Photography

Gold Medal for Photography - Art Direction Magazine

Featured Book - Soviet-American Book Fair, Moscow

Carey Thomas Award Nominee

Jean-Michel Cousteau

"Within a Rainbowed Sea has made each and every one of us a little more modest, a little more respectful, a little more in love, a little more sensitive... we all are very lucky. It's a treasure."

Gene Shalit-
The Today Show

"Christopher Newbert's marine life photographs are unlike anything I have ever seen, and since Newbert also writes well, Within a Rainbowed Sea is a marvel of a book."

Merv Griffin-
The Merv Griffin Show

"The photographs are like jewels. Within a Rainbowed Sea is the most spectacular book of the season."

Henry Mancini

"Christopher Newbert's Within a Rainbowed Sea creates its own world within its beautifully selective photographs and text. I thoroughly enjoyed it."

Hilda Kron-
Omni Magazine

"Within a Rainbowed Sea is an absolutely splendid book. A visual feast of the highest photographic and artistic standards."

Life Magazine

"The remarkable jewel-like clarity of his pictures suggests they were made in a studio under optimum conditions."

Publishers Weekly

"Newbert's images... plus evocative text, have been brought together in what must be one of the most remarkable photographic books ever published: Within a Rainbowed Sea."

Camera Arts Magazine

"(Newbert's) commitment to create innovative photographs borders on obsession... he creates images of unsettling intensity. Often the form of the animal or coral dematerializes into striking patterns of color. Many photographs are bold abstractions with only a remote graphic footnote indicating that the subjects are from the sea."

Ocean Realm Magazine

"Within a Rainbowed Sea can only be described as a masterpiece of art, and is a must for the serious collector of coffee table books. The text of Within a Rainbowed Sea reads like poetry, and the care exhibited in the photographs and the design of the book is also reflected in the carefully chosen words which describe it. As a gift item or a coffee table book, Within a Rainbowed Sea cannot fail to please the most discriminating visual connoisseur"

San Diego Magazine

"Within a Rainbowed Sea can only be described as a masterpiece of art, and is a must for the serious collector of coffee table books. The text of Within a Rainbowed Sea reads like poetry, and the care exhibited in the photographs and the design of the book is also reflected in the carefully chosen words which describe it. As a gift item or a coffee table book, Within a Rainbowed Sea cannot fail to please the most discriminating visual connoisseur.
Caught in his lens, the ocean is at times hardly recognizable as a place on Earth. Sea plants appear like forms miraculously windblown from another world; illuminated fish hang in the water like angels. Within a Rainbowed Sea is a marvel of color and beauty."

San Diego Union

"(Newbert) records the beauty of the undersea world with such consummate skill and wonder that it brings tears to the eyes... As if his photographs were not enough, Newbert writes about his dives with the same sense of poetic beauty. To share Newbert's adventures and photographs is to feel the balance of life -- the harmony of existence."

Los Angeles Times

"Within a Rainbowed Sea is a collection of 158 Newbert photographs that have exhausted critic's superlatives... (it) has won more gold medals than Edwin Moses."

Undercurrent Magazine

"Within a Rainbowed Sea is, quite simply, the most shockingly beautiful book you're ever likely to lay eyes on. With Newbert's sensitive and informative text, it becomes something more... a memorable experience, the only book of its kind."

Hillary Hauser-
Santa Barbara Newspress

"...a bright, meteoric book that is turning traditional concepts of underwater photography upside down. The book takes the reader on a rainbowed tour through the undersea world that is not easily forgotten. What a tour! The book is dramatic at the outset, remains that way to the end, and the reader will want to go through the adventure again and again. His photographs are a series of art pieces that are graphic designs first, sea animals second, and when viewers see the submarine world from Newbert's point of view, they are affected."

Dr. Leighton Taylor,
Director
Waikiki Aquarium

"Absolutely wonderful! Chris Newbert's book should be in every library... from homes of people who love beautiful books to art museums, to marine laboratories."

Ben Davison,
Editor
Undercurrent Magazine

"That's the secret of Within a Rainbowed Sea. Chris Newbert brings the undersea to divers in a way in which very few have ever seen it, and it's been there all along. Chris Newbert's book has given me the ability to see in a way I never had. That's quite a remarkable gift."

Tom Tucker,
Curator
Steinhart Aquarium

"The animals captured through the lens of Christopher Newbert are seldom encountered by the most experienced divers in the marine environment. The superb quality of the printing, the unsurpassed colors and enlightening, accurate text make this book a must for all who are moved by God's creations in the depths of the sea."

Anita Basset
Human Underwater Biology Inc.

"Within a Rainbowed Sea is more than exceptional. It is the most delicious masterpiece of underwater imagery we have every seen! ...can only be described as the most extraordinary book of its kind. It's fantastic! I was prepared for something very good. I was not prepared for this! Newbert's sensitivity reaches out to you -- his patience exacting-- his art is absolute perfection. We have never seen a more perfectly created book, and recommend it whole heartedly."

Karl H. Pribram
Professor of Neuroscience,
Stanford University

"I am deeply impressed with Chris Newbert's photography, which is not only technically superb in an extremely difficult setting, but also artistically incredibly well done. The book is a delight, and I am sure it will prove to be so to everyone who gets a chance to look at it, and to me over the years."

Buzz Aldrin
Astronaut

"If there were oceans on the moon, Chris Newbert would have recorded their living beauty within. Instead I consult personally with him to chart my next visit to our planet's exotic subsea vistas. Chris' unsurpassed patience, skill and photographic expertise has captured much that I have missed in my nearly 30 years of diving."

Dr. Sylvia Earle

"Thank you for creating the most beautiful book ever concerning the sea. Within a Rainbowed Sea eloquently conveys the essence of what many of us sometimes-sea-creatures have longed to share with those who have not seen the sea from the inside out. With admiration and thanks."

Richard Ellis
Artist, Author

"Within a Rainbowed Sea is one of the most beautiful books -- of any kind -- that I have ever seen. I have spent a good portion of my adult life looking at underwater photographs, and I have never seen anything like this. Every page is a delight and a marvel. The book is an intoxicating tour of a rainbow; a world we can only know through the magic of Chris Newbert's lenses."

Douglas Faulkner
Photographer, Author, This Living Reef and others

"I have today nominated Chris Newbert as recipient of the Maine Photographic Workshop's 'Photographer of the Year' award."

Stan Waterman
Filmmaker

"I have for years collected so-called 'coffee table' books of underwater still pictures. While some display excellent photographic work, few are accompanied by a text that is worth reading. In both text and pictures I consider Within a Rainbowed Sea the finest such book I have ever seen... the prose is wonderfully sensitive, lucid and even mystical at times. The photography is uniquely perceptive. Each image is a work of superb art. The graphic structure of the book is a joy unto itself."

Valerie Taylor
Photographer, Author

"What a super beautiful book. I am green with envy, absolutely. What can I say? Gushing superlatives sound so pathetic. Thank you for the inspiration, the challenge, but most of all, thank you for the feast my eyes devoured."

Ernest H. Brooks II
President, Brooks Institute of Photography

"Of all mankind who have witnessed the sea, your rainbow has no equal."

Kenneth Brower
Author, The Starship and the Canoe, Wake of the Whale

"Chris Newbert's one-man show is a masterwork, the finest collection of undersea photographs ever assembled between book covers. There is, with each turning of the page, surprise. There is a stunning, otherworldly beauty."

William Garnett
Photographer, Author, The Extraordinary Landscape

"Within a Rainbowed Sea arrived. What a breath of spring in the publishing world of books. A true statement of the beautiful wonders of underwater nature, captured with high style design by Chris Newbert and enclosed in an elegant tastefully produced book worthy of any collector's shelf. It is a book one cannot put down until the last page is savored. This book surpassed all our expectations."

Paul Humann
Photographer, Author

"It is wonderful! Unquestionably the finest book on underwater subjects ever published."

Tim Girvin
Graphic Designer

"Your book is a miracle. A voyage. An extraordinary odyssey. The exhilaration of the images knocked me to the ground. The sea."

F.G. Walton Smith,
President
The International Oceanographic Foundation

"Your lovely book, Within a Rainbowed Sea , is one of the most beautiful books we have received in our 30 years of publishing the foundation's magazine, Sea Frontiers."

John H. Prescott, Director
New England Aquarium

"Tremendous! Chris Newbert's book is a real contribution to both the arts, AND marine science. It is superb!"

Nicholas Brown,
Executive Director
National Aquarium, Baltimore

"Within a Rainbowed Sea is a special treasure because of the eloquent way it shows Nature as Art. Sensitively composed photographs, informative and moving text, this is a stunningly beautiful book. There will be no more worthwhile document of marine life appearing this year."