Vanishing Landscapes

by Berger, John; Schellnhuber, Hans Joachim; Adams, Robert; Burtynsky, Edward; Struth, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780711229280
• ISBN10: 0711229287
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-01
• Publisher: Frances Lincoln

Summary

Landscapes will soon no longer exist the way we know them. Global warming melts the Antarctic ice, slash and burn reduces the forests, rivers die of industrial pollution, grassland gives way to cities as the human population grows. How do photographic artists respond? Do they glorify nature or is it their aim to enlighten the spectator?Vanishing Landscapes provides different viewpoints from twenty internationally renowned photographers including Robert Adams, Edward Burtynsky, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Joel Sternfield, and Thomas Struth, with short commentaries by the artists, and an introduction by John Berger. About 30 of the photographs were specially commisioned for this book.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 6
Discoveries in a familiar world: The landscape as a photographic object	p. 8
On visibility	p. 12
Vanishing landscapes - a vanishing age?	p. 14
Why we must act now	p. 20
Water	p. 23
Ice	p. 67
Plants	p. 113
Land	p. 169
Biographies	p. 216
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