Publisher's Description
This new book by internationally acclaimed photographer Daniel Beltrá shows the abstracted results of the 2010 Gulf oil disaster. The scale of the disaster is revealed through aerial photographs which confuse scale and draw attention to the violent effect of mans pursuit of fossil fuels.
Publisher: Gost
Size: 305 x 230mm
64 pages printed full-colour on heavyweight paper
Edition of 2000 copies
This new book by internationally acclaimed photographer Daniel Beltrá shows the abstracted results of the 2010 Gulf oil disaster. The scale of the disaster is revealed through aerial photographs which confuse scale and draw attention to the violent effect of mans pursuit of fossil fuels.
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Step aboard a private plane for a breathtaking tour of the immense and varied wilderness of Latin America—lush lands and scenic waterways nearly impossible to experience any other way.
Your guide to this remarkable vision is Robert B. Haas, award-winning environmentalist and one of the world's foremost artists in aerial photography. Poignant essays penned by Haas while living in Latin America expand on themes important to understanding the region: culture, economy, development, tourism, and more.
Publisher: National Geographic
Size: 11 x 15"
232 pages
In its interior, Japan is mountainous and green. Most of the population still lives along its coasts, but as people slowly move inland, mountainsides are torn away to create necessary horizontal space. To secure the newly exposed inclines, concrete is sprayed and poured onto the vertical plains, or hoisted as pre-poured grids onto the hillsides. Since 1983, Toshio Shibata has photographed these sites. His elaborate compositions and exquisite black and white prints are works of art that record the merging - and resulting tension - of Japan's great natural beauty and the craftsmanship of its engineers. Landscape presents a selection of forty-three photographs from this project, with essays by Anne Tucker and Etsuro Ishihara.
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A never-before-seen look into the forbidding environment of glaciers, this book celebrates a realm of magnificent endangered beauty. Since 2005, renowned nature photographer James Balog has devoted himself to capturing glaciers and documenting their daily changes. These stunning images are a celebration of some of the most extraordinary natural formations on earth, as well as a dramatic and timely demonstration of the stark consequences resulting from global warming—from Alaska to Iceland to the Alps. As glaciologists for the Extreme Ice Survey, Balog and his team are conducting the most extensive glacier study ever, covering France, Switzerland, Iceland, Greenland, the United States (Alaska and Montana), Nepal, Bolivia, and Antarctica. Their high-resolution cameras capture approximately 4,000 images per year. From this collection of nearly half a million photos, Balog presents the most stunning panoramic photography of glaciers ever published.
Publisher: Rizzoli
Size: 13 x 10-1/2"
A never-before-seen look into the forbidding environment of glaciers, this book celebrates a realm of magnificent endangered beauty.
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Petrochemical America features Richard Misrach’s haunting photographic record of Louisiana’s Chemical Corridor, accompanied by landscape architect Kate Orff’s Ecological Atlas—a series of “throughlines,” speculative drawings developed through research and mapping of data from the region. Their joint effort depicts and unpacks the complex cultural, physical, and economic ecologies along 150 miles of the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, an area of intense chemical production that first garnered public attention as “Cancer Alley” when unusual occurrences of cancer were discovered in the region.
This collaboration has resulted in an unprecedented, multilayered document presenting a unique narrative of visual information. Petrochemical America offers in-depth analysis of the causes of decades of environmental abuse along the largest river system in North America. Even more critically, the project offers an extensively researched guidebook to the way in which the petrochemical industry has permeated every facet of contemporary life. What is revealed over the course of the book is that Cancer Alley—although complicated by its own regional histories and particularities—may well be an apt metaphor for the global impact of petrochemicals on the human landscape as a whole.
Publisher: Aperture
Size: 13 1/2 x 10 1/2"
240 pages (plus 24-page insert), 150 four-colour images
Petrochemical America features Richard Misrach’s haunting photographic record of Louisiana’s Chemical Corridor, accompanied by landscape architect Kate Orff’s Ecological Atlas—a series of “throughlines,” speculative drawings developed through research and mapping of data from the region.
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China’s spectacular growth has brought not just prosperity, but also serious damage to the environment. For photojournalist Andreas Seibert, the present state of the Huai River is a clear example of these problems. Several stretches of the river have been so seriously polluted by toxic waste that people are advised not to even touch the water. Seibert has traveled along the river from source to mouth in order to record how it changes from a stretch of water rising amidst unspoiled nature into a large and poisonous river. Pictures taken on his travels present the poor hinterlands which are generally forgotten in discussions on China, and show the people who live on and near the river—in a habitat on the brink of destruction.
Sample images here.
Publisher: Lars Müller Publishers
Size:260 x 190 mm
320 pages, 240 illustrations
China’s spectacular growth has brought not just prosperity, but also serious damage to the environment. For photojournalist Andreas Seibert, the present state of the Huai River is a clear example of these problems.
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In Global Remains, Michael Clinton offers a visionary collection of the different places around the world that have struck his perceptive eye: forgotten places and artefacts that range from homes, to churches, to planes, statues, temples, and farmhouses. Though abandoned, the objects and places retain grand vitality and rich character that have drawn Clinton to photograph these places. Photographs depict a multitude of beautiful forgotten places: a shipwreck immersed in sandy beaches; The Colosseum of Rome; ancient Buddha statues, or intriguing graffiti of Che Guevara. Clinton brings life back to these ruined churches, homes, streets, planes, and statues brilliantly with his lens. Michael Clinton's intense life-long desire to explore the world has led him to 120 countries and every continent on the globe with his camera in tow. His breathtaking photographs serve as a visual travel diary.
Clinton's travels have brought him face-to-face with the most diverse peoples, spectacular cities, breathtaking landscapes, and exotic wildlife on the planet, allowing him to take spectacular photos of his experiences.
Contents: Introduction; One: Industrial; Two: Reliquary & Ancient; Three: Graffiti & Signage; Four: Pastoral; Five: Airfield; Six: Road & Wheel; Seven: Dwelling & Town; Index; Acknowledgments.
Publisher: Glitterati Incorporated
Size: 152 x 203 mm
352 pages, 300 colour images
Global Remains is the third and final volume in his acclaimed Global series, featuring the design and architectural vestiges that make each of the countries he has visited distinct and memorable.
Publisher's Description
Moments Before the Flood, is a visual and photographic investigation into how we will handle a possible flood. Within the text Carl De Keyzer wonders how Europe is preparing itself for a possible rise of our sea levels and how insufficient these measures appear to be. The author doesn't want to photograph the disaster, but the 'waiting for the disaster to happen'. In his photographs he captures the obscurity of the unknown and the unsure. The photographs presented in this book are monumental, both in beauty and in resolution. Carl De Keyzer used the latest technique (65 million pixels) to create intriguing images, with a highly David Lynch-like atmosphere.
- The result of five years of travelling, presenting various dramatic photographs of the coasts of Europe
- An artistic and ecological masterpiece
- Includes 200 images with nursery rhymes collected from children across Europe
- Published in conjunction with a waterfront exhibition in Ostend, Belgium, on view from May - August 2012
Publisher: Lannoo Publishers
Size: 320 x 320 mm
280 pages, 250 colour illustrations
Moments Before the Flood, is a visual and photographic investigation into how we will handle a possible flood.
In a rugged knot of mountains in northern British Columbia lies a spectacular valley
known to the First Nations as the Sacred Headwaters. There, three of Canada’s
most important salmon rivers—the Stikine, the Skeena, and the Nass—are born in
close proximity. Now, against the wishes of all First Nations, the British Columbia
government has opened the Sacred Headwaters to industrial development. Imperial
Metals proposes an open-pit copper and gold mine, called the Red Chris mine, and
Royal Dutch Shell wants to extract coal bed methane gas across a tenure of close to
a million acres.
In The Sacred Headwaters, a collection of photographs by Carr Clifton and members
of the International League of Conservation Photographers—including Claudio
Contreras, Paul Colangelo, and Wade Davis—portray the splendour of the region.
These photographs are supplemented by images from other professionals who have
worked here, including Sarah Leen of the National Geographic.
The compelling text by Wade Davis, which describes the region’s beauty, the
threats to it, and the response of native groups and other inhabitants, is complemented
by the voices of the Tahltan elders. The inescapable message is that no
amount of methane gas can compensate for the sacrifice of a place that could be the
Sacred Headwaters of all Canadians and indeed of all peoples of the world.
Wade Davis is explorer-in-residence at the National Geographic Society and is the
author of numerous books, including Light at the Edge of the World and The Clouded
Leopard. He has lived and worked in the Stikine as a park ranger, guide, and anthropologist
since 1978. He and his wife, Gail, own Wolf Creek Lodge, the closest private
holding to both the Sacred Headwaters and the proposed site of the Red Chris mine.
1 1 ” x 10” · 160 pages
ful l -colour photographs throughout , 1 map
In a rugged knot of mountains in northern British Columbia lies a spectacular valley
known to the First Nations as the Sacred Headwaters. There, three of Canada’s
most important salmon rivers—the Stikine, the Skeena, and the Nass—are born in
close proximity. Now, against the wishes of all First Nations, the British Columbia
government has opened the Sacred Headwaters to industrial development. Imperial
Metals proposes an open-pit copper and gold mine, called the Red Chris mine, and
Royal Dutch Shell wants to extract coal bed methane gas across a tenure of close to
a million acres.
In The Sacred Headwaters, a collection of photographs by Carr Clifton and members
of the International League of Conservation Photographers—including Claudio
Contreras, Paul Colangelo, and Wade Davis—portray the splendour of the region.
These photographs are supplemented by images from other professionals who have
worked here, including Sarah Leen of the National Geographic.
The compelling text by Wade Davis, which describes the region’s beauty, the
threats to it, and the response of native groups and other inhabitants, is complemented
by the voices of the Tahltan elders. The inescapable message is that no
amount of methane gas can compensate for the sacrifice of a place that could be the
Sacred Headwaters of all Canadians and indeed of all peoples of the world.
Wade Davis is explorer-in-residence at the National Geographic Society and is the
author of numerous books, including Light at the Edge of the World and The Clouded
Leopard. He has lived and worked in the Stikine as a park ranger, guide, and anthropologist
since 1978. He and his wife, Gail, own Wolf Creek Lodge, the closest private
holding to both the Sacred Headwaters and the proposed site of the Red Chris mine.
1 1 ” x 10” · 160 pages
ful l -colour photographs throughout , 1 map
Over a twenty-five year career exploring the landscape as transformed by industry, the celebrated Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has accumulated a body of work on large scale quarries around the world. Including Canada, Italy, China, Spain, Portugal, India and America these thought provoking studies of sites that are created as we dig into the earth for material in order to build our cities, urge us to consider how we as viewers are simultaneously attracted yet repulsed by these landscapes – somewhere a building is created while a landscape is destroyed.
Publisher: Steidl
Size: 381 x 304 mm
176 pages, 80 colour plates
Over a twenty-five year career exploring the landscape as transformed by industry, the celebrated Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has accumulated a body of work on large scale quarries around the world. Including Canada, Italy, China, Spain, Portugal, India and America these thought provoking studies of sites that are created as we dig into the earth for material in order to build our cities, urge us to consider how we as viewers are simultaneously attracted yet repulsed by these landscapes – somewhere a building is created while a landscape is destroyed.
Publisher: Steidl
Size: 381 x 304 mm
176 pages, 80 colour plates
Since 2008 photographer Andrej Krementschouk has visited Chernobyl, venturing into the restricted 30km zone of alienation around the reactor. This fisrt part of a two edition release collects images of the rural landscape alongside moving portraits of those who refused to leave their homes, despite the danger of radiation, fuelled by their commitment to their sense of place, home and responsibility to the surrounding nature and way of life.
Since 2008 photographer Andrej Krementschouk has visited Chernobyl, venturing into the restricted 30km zone of alienation around the reactor. This fisrt part of a two edition release collects images of the rural landscape alongside moving portraits of those who refused to leave their homes, despite the danger of radiation, fuelled by their commitment to their sense of place, home and responsibility to the surrounding nature and way of life.
Fascinating and breathtaking large-format photographs of severe weather
At the age of twelve, Kevin Erskine (*1956 in Sharpsburg, Illinois) witnessed his first big storm: a category 4 tornado with wind speeds of over 207 miles per hour raged through the center of his hometown of Hoskins, Nebraska. Fascinated and inspired by this immense force of nature, Erskine began taking his first photographs with his father’s camera. His passion for photography and respect for nature still motivate him to capture supercells with his large-format camera. The images depict enormous cloud masses in continually different formations—be it before a thunderstorm, during a tornado, shined on by the red evening sun, or forebodingly dark purple or black by night. Erskine masterfully demonstrates the ambivalence between the terrifying force of nature and its stunning beauty.
You can view images from this book on the the photographer's website.
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Size: 388 x 288 mm
192 pages, 105 colour ills.
Publisher's Description
Fascinating and breathtaking large-format photographs of severe weather
At the age of twelve, Kevin Erskine (*1956 in Sharpsburg, Illinois) witnessed his first big storm: a category 4 tornado with wind speeds of over 207 miles per hour raged through the center of his hometown of Hoskins, Nebraska. Fascinated and inspired by this immense force of nature, Erskine began taking his first photographs with his father’s camera. His passion for photography and respect for nature still motivate him to capture supercells with his large-format camera. The images depict enormous cloud masses in continually different formations—be it before a thunderstorm, during a tornado, shined on by the red evening sun, or forebodingly dark purple or black by night. Erskine masterfully demonstrates the ambivalence between the terrifying force of nature and its stunning beauty.
You can view images from this book on the the photographer's website.
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Size: 388 x 288 mm
192 pages, 105 colour ills.
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Publisher's Description
A new book is going to change the way people think about climate change. With the combined knowledge of more than 30 scientists and some of the most stunning climate images every captured, A Climate for Life: Meeting the Global Challenge, is one of the most comprehensive volumes on climate change ever published.
The book features more than 175 images from world famous photographers including Frans Lanting, James Balog, and Joel Sartore, as well as expansive and accessible science on climate change and how the world can transform an unprecedented environmental challenge into opportunity for the future.
A Climate for Life draws connections between seemingly unrelated events involving climate change to demonstrate the concerted and momentous effort required to combat it. The book explores how rising temperatures on land and in the oceans around the globe affect nature, and therefore all living things, including people.
“The science on climate change is clear and the threat is urgent. We must use this crisis as an opportunity to revolutionize economies, create jobs, and protect critical ecosystems that can stabilize our climate right now,” says Russell A. Mittermeier, lead author and president of Conservation International. “The emerging perception of climate change is fragmented at best, and this book demonstrates plainly the strong linkages between our modern society, the natural world, and climate change. There is hope for the future, but only if we act now.”
Was £36.99 > Now £12.25
Publisher's Description
A new book is going to change the way people think about climate change. With the combined knowledge of more than 30 scientists and some of the most stunning climate images every captured, A Climate for Life: Meeting the Global Challenge, is one of the most comprehensive volumes on climate change ever published.
The book features more than 175 images from world famous photographers including Frans Lanting, James Balog, and Joel Sartore, as well as expansive and accessible science on climate change and how the world can transform an unprecedented environmental challenge into opportunity for the future.
A Climate for Life draws connections between seemingly unrelated events involving climate change to demonstrate the concerted and momentous effort required to combat it. The book explores how rising temperatures on land and in the oceans around the globe affect nature, and therefore all living things, including people.
“The science on climate change is clear and the threat is urgent. We must use this crisis as an opportunity to revolutionize economies, create jobs, and protect critical ecosystems that can stabilize our climate right now,” says Russell A. Mittermeier, lead author and president of Conservation International. “The emerging perception of climate change is fragmented at best, and this book demonstrates plainly the strong linkages between our modern society, the natural world, and climate change. There is hope for the future, but only if we act now.”
Publisher's Description
More than twenty essays by some of the most distinguished scientists working in conservation are compiled in this publication to highlight that unsustainable economic growth has put a burden on nature’s capacity to deliver clean water, fresh air, medicines and climate regulation, among other benefits. Assigning a financial value to them is the key to mend some of the environmental impact of human activities.
This book is a celebration nature’s ecological services and demonstrates in detail how they contribute to our health, economic prosperity, and cultural values.
Russ Mittermeier, President of CI, who, together with Jeff McNeely of IUCN led the group of scientists, said: “Nature provides services that are essential to sustain all life on the planet. These services must be valued according to the benefits that they provide to people, and those communities who work to protect them should be financially compensated for this. Economic instruments are a way to encourage better management of ecosystems.”
The Wealth of Nature is illustrated with hundreds of amazing full-color photographs by a host of world-renowned nature photographers, including noted wildlife photographer Frans Lanting, the award-winning Jenny E. Ross and endangered species photographer Joel Sartore. “Photography moves people and take them to places they could not see by themselves. We hope to shine a light on some the most pressing environmental issues of today and inspire the public to take care of the natural world,” said Cristina Mittermeier, Executive Director of the ILCP.
Publisher: Cemex
Was £36.99 > Now £12.25
Publisher's Description
More than twenty essays by some of the most distinguished scientists working in conservation are compiled in this publication to highlight that unsustainable economic growth has put a burden on nature’s capacity to deliver clean water, fresh air, medicines and climate regulation, among other benefits. Assigning a financial value to them is the key to mend some of the environmental impact of human activities.
This book is a celebration nature’s ecological services and demonstrates in detail how they contribute to our health, economic prosperity, and cultural values.
Russ Mittermeier, President of CI, who, together with Jeff McNeely of IUCN led the group of scientists, said: “Nature provides services that are essential to sustain all life on the planet. These services must be valued according to the benefits that they provide to people, and those communities who work to protect them should be financially compensated for this. Economic instruments are a way to encourage better management of ecosystems.”
The Wealth of Nature is illustrated with hundreds of amazing full-color photographs by a host of world-renowned nature photographers, including noted wildlife photographer Frans Lanting, the award-winning Jenny E. Ross and endangered species photographer Joel Sartore. “Photography moves people and take them to places they could not see by themselves. We hope to shine a light on some the most pressing environmental issues of today and inspire the public to take care of the natural world,” said Cristina Mittermeier, Executive Director of the ILCP.
Publisher: Cemex
Publisher's Description
It's an alarming if little-known fact: one of the world's mightiest rivers, the Colorado, no longer reaches the sea. Every drop of its water is allocated to agriculture and communities along the way and none remains for the Colorado Delta at river's end, a once-thriving estuary that supported North America's most diverse biosphere. Grand Canyon: A River at Risk draws attention the river's plight as well as to the larger issue of the looming global water crisis. It follows Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a leading advocate for water conservation and river restoration, eminent ethnobotanist Wade Davis, and their two daughters on a rafting adventure down the Colorado. Their compelling journey illuminates both the challenges and the many opportunities that exist for conserving and restoring the world's watersheds. Combining science and adventure with glorious imagery and locations, the book delivers a message of hope and inspiration for all people of the world.
Publisher: Earth Aware Editions
160 pages, More than 150 full-color photographs
Was £26.99 > Now £12.25
Publisher's Description
It's an alarming if little-known fact: one of the world's mightiest rivers, the Colorado, no longer reaches the sea. Every drop of its water is allocated to agriculture and communities along the way and none remains for the Colorado Delta at river's end, a once-thriving estuary that supported North America's most diverse biosphere. Grand Canyon: A River at Risk draws attention the river's plight as well as to the larger issue of the looming global water crisis. It follows Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a leading advocate for water conservation and river restoration, eminent ethnobotanist Wade Davis, and their two daughters on a rafting adventure down the Colorado. Their compelling journey illuminates both the challenges and the many opportunities that exist for conserving and restoring the world's watersheds. Combining science and adventure with glorious imagery and locations, the book delivers a message of hope and inspiration for all people of the world.
Publisher: Earth Aware Editions
160 pages, More than 150 full-color photographs
Publisher's Description
Antarctica's environment today is a microcosm of the wold environment's future: as endangered creatures, such as the chinstrap penguins, humpback whales, and albatrosses continue to face extinction, research scientists have concluded that this icy ecosystem serves as a final warning of impending environmental deterioration. Sebastian Copeland's photographs have captured both the incredible beauty of the continent and the devastation that climate changes have wreaked on it. His data, photographs, and conclusions - along with contributions from Will Steger, David De Rothschild, Stephen Schneider, Zac Goldsmith, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Leonardo DiCaprio - bring to readers with insight and urgency the momentous reality of the not so distant future with insight and urgency.
Publisher: Earth Aware Editions
Size: 9 x 13 1/2"
176 pages
Was £32.99 > Now £12.25
Publisher's Description
Antarctica's environment today is a microcosm of the wold environment's future: as endangered creatures, such as the chinstrap penguins, humpback whales, and albatrosses continue to face extinction, research scientists have concluded that this icy ecosystem serves as a final warning of impending environmental deterioration. Sebastian Copeland's photographs have captured both the incredible beauty of the continent and the devastation that climate changes have wreaked on it. His data, photographs, and conclusions - along with contributions from Will Steger, David De Rothschild, Stephen Schneider, Zac Goldsmith, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Leonardo DiCaprio - bring to readers with insight and urgency the momentous reality of the not so distant future with insight and urgency.
Publisher: Earth Aware Editions
Size: 9 x 13 1/2"
176 pages
North America’s pristine, remote, and very much endangered lands as seen through the award-winning aerial photography of Jim Wark. The expanse of North America seems boundless, and its wild lands encompass some of the most beautiful landscapes in the world. Though timeless in their majesty, some areas are at risk of vanishing or changing forever, and Jim Wark’s passion is to capture many of these beautiful regions before they are developed or environmentally impacted-and lost. From the lush coasts of the Great Lakes to the jagged peaks of the Rocky Mountains, from the deep crevasses of Utah’s Canyonlands to the picturesque valleys of the Appalachians, this breathtaking volume captures these remote gems with glorious vistas and unique and detailed perspectives only available from the air. Piloting his high-wing bush plane for unobstructed camera work and unique low-level angles, Wark’s artistic eye for detail makes this book an incomparable trip to the last North American wildernesses.
Publisher: Universe
Size: 9 x 12"
Publisher's Description
North America’s pristine, remote, and very much endangered lands as seen through the award-winning aerial photography of Jim Wark. The expanse of North America seems boundless, and its wild lands encompass some of the most beautiful landscapes in the world. Though timeless in their majesty, some areas are at risk of vanishing or changing forever, and Jim Wark’s passion is to capture many of these beautiful regions before they are developed or environmentally impacted-and lost. From the lush coasts of the Great Lakes to the jagged peaks of the Rocky Mountains, from the deep crevasses of Utah’s Canyonlands to the picturesque valleys of the Appalachians, this breathtaking volume captures these remote gems with glorious vistas and unique and detailed perspectives only available from the air. Piloting his high-wing bush plane for unobstructed camera work and unique low-level angles, Wark’s artistic eye for detail makes this book an incomparable trip to the last North American wildernesses.
Publisher: Universe
Size: 9 x 12"
A comprehensive look at the work of 100 contemporary photographers who capture the impact of human activity on natural landscapes. The Altered Landscape is a provocative collection of photographs representing a wide range of artists, techniques, visual styles, subjects, and ideological positions. Organized chronologically, the more than 150 images-by artists such as Andy Goldsworthy, Chris Jordan, Catherine Opie, and Edward Burtynsky-reveal the ways that individuals and industries have marked, mined, toured, tested, developed, occupied, and exploited landscapes over the last fifty years. From Robert Adams and Lewis Baltz, two of the most influential photographers to document environmental destruction in the American West, to Richard Misrach and Mark Klett, who examine abuse of natural resources, these moving images reveal the diversity of voices within the field of contemporary photography. In Association with the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
Publisher: Skira Rizzoli
Size: 12 x 11 1/2"
Publisher's Description
A comprehensive look at the work of 100 contemporary photographers who capture the impact of human activity on natural landscapes. The Altered Landscape is a provocative collection of photographs representing a wide range of artists, techniques, visual styles, subjects, and ideological positions. Organized chronologically, the more than 150 images-by artists such as Andy Goldsworthy, Chris Jordan, Catherine Opie, and Edward Burtynsky-reveal the ways that individuals and industries have marked, mined, toured, tested, developed, occupied, and exploited landscapes over the last fifty years. From Robert Adams and Lewis Baltz, two of the most influential photographers to document environmental destruction in the American West, to Richard Misrach and Mark Klett, who examine abuse of natural resources, these moving images reveal the diversity of voices within the field of contemporary photography. In Association with the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
Publisher: Skira Rizzoli
Size: 12 x 11 1/2"
A signed and numbered special limited edition of 100 including a 12 x 10” chromogenic print contained within an archival stitched parchment sleeve.
Ian Teh explores the industrial hinterlands of China’s far-flung and impoverished provinces with unflinching precision and subtle intensity. From industrialisation to pollution, these photographic works present the landscape as a repository for humanity’s endeavors, somehow a source of memory and a silent testament to our material desires. In the world’s most populous country Teh has made landscape pictures with close to no people in sight, letting the terrain speak for itself.
Over-mined and ruptured lands have resulted in an organic architecture, reflecting man’s belief that what lies beneath the surface has greater value than what lies above. Yet these photographs do not propose to dictate an easy answer to the problematic balance between improved living standards and environmental nightmares. To quote a retired truck driver in Inner Mongolia “Nowadays we have a better standard of living even if our life spans are shorter. Nothing made here stays here; our government has exported our blue skies to the west.”
In contrast to the landscape vistas we are intermittently submerged into the intimate chronicles of daily life in these environments. Visually darker and obscured, these photographs capture the working conditions at China’s industrial core. We are offered a context in which the passing of time appears fleeting in comparison to the icy stillness and longevity of the land. Ultimately, the brilliant glare from China’s metropolises can be traced back to the hinterland and its migrant workers. There, as in all of China, Ian Teh sees the dream of a nation, the cost and what is deferred for future generations.
You can view images from this book on the Flowers Gallery website.
Publisher: Deep Sleep Editions
Size: 302 x 240 mm
64 pages, 34 plates
Publisher's Description
A signed and numbered special limited edition of 100 including a 12 x 10” chromogenic print contained within an archival stitched parchment sleeve.
Ian Teh explores the industrial hinterlands of China’s far-flung and impoverished provinces with unflinching precision and subtle intensity. From industrialisation to pollution, these photographic works present the landscape as a repository for humanity’s endeavors, somehow a source of memory and a silent testament to our material desires. In the world’s most populous country Teh has made landscape pictures with close to no people in sight, letting the terrain speak for itself.
Over-mined and ruptured lands have resulted in an organic architecture, reflecting man’s belief that what lies beneath the surface has greater value than what lies above. Yet these photographs do not propose to dictate an easy answer to the problematic balance between improved living standards and environmental nightmares. To quote a retired truck driver in Inner Mongolia “Nowadays we have a better standard of living even if our life spans are shorter. Nothing made here stays here; our government has exported our blue skies to the west.”
In contrast to the landscape vistas we are intermittently submerged into the intimate chronicles of daily life in these environments. Visually darker and obscured, these photographs capture the working conditions at China’s industrial core. We are offered a context in which the passing of time appears fleeting in comparison to the icy stillness and longevity of the land. Ultimately, the brilliant glare from China’s metropolises can be traced back to the hinterland and its migrant workers. There, as in all of China, Ian Teh sees the dream of a nation, the cost and what is deferred for future generations.
You can view images from this book on the Flowers Gallery website.
Publisher: Deep Sleep Editions
Size: 302 x 240 mm
64 pages, 34 plates
Signed Copies Available
Publisher's Description
Ian Teh explores the industrial hinterlands of China’s far-flung and impoverished provinces with unflinching precision and subtle intensity. From industrialisation to pollution, these photographic works present the landscape as a repository for humanity’s endeavors, somehow a source of memory and a silent testament to our material desires. In the world’s most populous country Teh has made landscape pictures with close to no people in sight, letting the terrain speak for itself.
Over-mined and ruptured lands have resulted in an organic architecture, reflecting man’s belief that what lies beneath the surface has greater value than what lies above. Yet these photographs do not propose to dictate an easy answer to the problematic balance between improved living standards and environmental nightmares. To quote a retired truck driver in Inner Mongolia “Nowadays we have a better standard of living even if our life spans are shorter. Nothing made here stays here; our government has exported our blue skies to the west.”
In contrast to the landscape vistas we are intermittently submerged into the intimate chronicles of daily life in these environments. Visually darker and obscured, these photographs capture the working conditions at China’s industrial core. We are offered a context in which the passing of time appears fleeting in comparison to the icy stillness and longevity of the land. Ultimately, the brilliant glare from China’s metropolises can be traced back to the hinterland and its migrant workers. There, as in all of China, Ian Teh sees the dream of a nation, the cost and what is deferred for future generations.
You can view images from this book on the Flowers Gallery website.
Publisher: Deep Sleep Editions
Size: 302 x 240 mm
64 pages, 34 plates
Signed Copies Available
Publisher's Description
Ian Teh explores the industrial hinterlands of China’s far-flung and impoverished provinces with unflinching precision and subtle intensity. From industrialisation to pollution, these photographic works present the landscape as a repository for humanity’s endeavors, somehow a source of memory and a silent testament to our material desires. In the world’s most populous country Teh has made landscape pictures with close to no people in sight, letting the terrain speak for itself.
Over-mined and ruptured lands have resulted in an organic architecture, reflecting man’s belief that what lies beneath the surface has greater value than what lies above. Yet these photographs do not propose to dictate an easy answer to the problematic balance between improved living standards and environmental nightmares. To quote a retired truck driver in Inner Mongolia “Nowadays we have a better standard of living even if our life spans are shorter. Nothing made here stays here; our government has exported our blue skies to the west.”
In contrast to the landscape vistas we are intermittently submerged into the intimate chronicles of daily life in these environments. Visually darker and obscured, these photographs capture the working conditions at China’s industrial core. We are offered a context in which the passing of time appears fleeting in comparison to the icy stillness and longevity of the land. Ultimately, the brilliant glare from China’s metropolises can be traced back to the hinterland and its migrant workers. There, as in all of China, Ian Teh sees the dream of a nation, the cost and what is deferred for future generations.
You can view images from this book on the Flowers Gallery website.
Publisher: Deep Sleep Editions
Size: 302 x 240 mm
64 pages, 34 plates