The Big Cloud: Specatular Photographs of Storm Clouds

by Seaman, Camille; Burdick, Alan

• ISBN13: 9781616896638
• ISBN10: 1616896639
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2018-05-01
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

Summary

Witness the power of nature.

More than 85 thrilling photographs: These beautiful photographs of stormfronts, tornados, lightning storms, and pitch-black skies engulf the viewer's imagination and never fail to impart the awe-inspiring power of our constantly shifting weather and climate. Seaman's work is a potent reminder that there is no art more dramatic, in scale or emotion, than that created by nature.

"I wasn't born a storm chaser. Like so many things in my life it came out of left field, without a warning or sign." Camille Seaman is a TED Senior Fellow whose TED Talk on her photographs of supercell storms has garnered more than 1,600,000 views. She has received a National Geographic Award, and her photographs appear in publications including Time, The New York Times, and Men's Journal.

"A cloud can be beautiful, terrible, or both — the embodiment of the sublime."The Big Cloud features an introduction by Alan Burdick, author and science editor for The New Yorker.

If you liked Melting Away: A Ten Year Journey through Our Endangered Polar Regions, you'll love The Big Cloud

Author Biography

Camille Seaman is a TED Senior Fellow whose 2013 TED Talk on her photographs of supercell storms has garnered more than 1,500,000 views. Her previous book was Melting Away: A Ten-Year Journey through Our Endangered Polar Regions. She has received a National Geographic Award, and her photographs have appeared in publications including Time, the New York Times and Men's Journal.

Alan Burdick is staff writer at The New Yorker, which he joined in 2012, first as a senior editor, then as the editor of Elements, their science-and-tech blog. His  first book, Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion, was a National Book Award finalist and won the Overseas Press Club Award