Access Denied
IMPORTANT! If you’re a store owner, please make sure you have Customer accounts enabled in your Store Admin, as you have customer based locks set up with EasyLockdown app. Enable Customer Accounts
While the Fires Burn
A Glacier Odyssey
Out of Stock- Regular price
- $90.00
- Sale price
- $90.00
- Regular price
-
- Unit price
- / per
Terrestrial and aerial photography combine with historic documents and computer-modelled drawings to capture the world's shrinking glaciers across four continents
Begun in 2009, Daniel Schwartz's latest photographic art project considers visible evidence of the disappearance of glaciers around the world as a starting point for reflections on climate history and the relationship between glacial cycles and human lifespan, on natural ecology and human 'progress'. The project's geographical field of interest extends from today's Alpine cryosphere to areas of prehistoric glaciation in what is now the great plain of Switzerland, to as far afield as Pakistan (Karakoram range), Uganda (Rwenzori range) and Peru (Cordillera Blanca), all of which demonstrate dramatically shrinking glaciers at differing stages. Schwartz has travelled widely over many years, creating unique new views of rarely photographed equatorial African glaciers.
Combining spectacular close aerial photography with archive documents, Schwartz links visual art and the natural sciences, continuing an interdisciplinary tradition with roots in early 18th-century Switzerland, the birthplace of glaciology. Neither documentary nor pure artwork, these beautiful photographs, shot in exceptional and arresting detail, define new ways to examine glaciers as a functional archive of human presence, and to consider human intervention in natural history.
Combining spectacular close aerial photography with archive documents, Schwartz links visual art and the natural sciences, continuing an interdisciplinary tradition with roots in early 18th-century Switzerland, the birthplace of glaciology. Neither documentary nor pure artwork, these beautiful photographs, shot in exceptional and arresting detail, define new ways to examine glaciers as a functional archive of human presence, and to consider human intervention in natural history.
Extent: 232 pp
Format: Hardback
Illustrations: approximately 160-200 illustrations
Publication date: 2017-09-01
Size: 22.5 x 24.0 cm
ISBN: 9780500544778
About the Author
You May Also Like
View more
This product currently has no recommended items.
Sign up to our Newsletter
Our weekly newsletter is a curated collection of interviews, articles, stunning images and books we think you’ll love. Sign up to get 20% off.
In accordance with our privacy policy, you may unsubscribe at any time.
Invalid password
Enter
- Choosing a selection results in a full page refresh.