See the World Beautiful

by Menke, Anne; Hilfiger, Tommy

• ISBN13: 9780983270270
• ISBN10: 0983270279
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-10-16
• Publisher: Glitterati Incorporated

Summary

Anne Menke has travelled the world on assignment for the likes of Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair, and The New York Times, usually in search of the perfect environment to shoot a fashion spread. Through this, she has discovered that these environment

Author Biography

Steve Miller is an artist at the forefront of SciArt, whose ongoing interest in the way art and science can illuminate one another has inspired him to create acclaimed paintings, prints, photographs, and sculptures. His work has been reviewed in Le Monde, Art Press, The New York Times, Artforum, La Nouvelle Republique, and Art in America. Always at the cutting edge, Miller has photographed his own blood using a microscopic camera, developed multiple screen printing visualization projects with scientists from Brookhaven National Laboratory, and in his most recent body of work, Health of the Planet, featured the Amazonian flora and fauna in a series of x-ray photographs. This recent work has been shown in galleries around the world. Miller splits his time between New York City and the Hamptons.

Carl Safina has been recognized with MacArthur, Pew, and Guggenheim Fellowships, and his writing has won Orion, Lannan, and National Academies literary awards and the John Burroughs, James Beard, and George Rabb medals. He has a PhD in ecology from Rutgers University. Safina is the inaugural holder of the endowed chair for nature and humanity at Stony Brook University, where he co-chairs the steering committee of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science and is founding president of the not-for-profit organization, The Safina Center. He hosted the 10-part PBS series Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina. His writing appears in The New York Times, Audubon, Orion, and other periodicals and on the Web at National Geographic News and Views, Huffington Post, and CNN.com. He lives on Long Island, New York with his wife Patricia, the two best beach-running dogs in the world, some chickens, a couple of parrots, and Frankie, the kingsnake.

Table of Contents

Contents: Preface - Julia Chaplin; Foreword - Tommy Hilfiger; Introduction - Anne Menke; Isla Taquile and Uros Islands, Peru; Nairobi, Africa; Salvador da Bahia, Brazil; Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; Lijiang, China; Salta, Argentina; Jujuy, Argentina; Honolulu, Hawaii, United States; Quero Indios, Peru; Varanasi, India; Barrow, Alaska, United States; Bolivia, Andes; Pourvoirie du Lac Blanc, Canada; Gypsy, South of Madrid, Spain; Badlands, South Dakota and Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, United States; Afterword - Andrew Niccol.