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Довгоочікувана монографія від всесвітньо відомої фотографки-документалістки та режисера

Lauren Greenfield: Generation Wealth – це одночасно ретроспектива та дослідження теми багатства протягом останніх двадцяти п'яти років. Грінфілд подорожувала світом – від Лос-Анджелеса до Москви, від Дубая до Китаю – свідчачи про світову економіку, що переживає бум і спад, та документуючи її складні наслідки. Спонукаючи до серйозних роздумів, ця книга не про багатих, а про бажання бути багатим будь-якою ціною.

Листівка Лорен Грінфілд з краю Американської імперії зображує матеріалістичну, одержиму образами культуру. Одночасно фотографічна подорож, мемуари та історичне есе, фільм свідчить про світову економіку, що переживає бум і спад, корумповану американську мрію та людську ціну пізньої стадії капіталізму, нарцисизму та жадібності.

«Майстерно створений візуально... Generation Wealth захоплює з самого початку». — Hollywood News

«Проникливий та гострий погляд на одержимість суспільства надмірностями». — Screen International

Про авторів:

Лорен Грінфілд — фотографка та кінорежисерка, лауреатка премії «Еммі». Видатна літописець молодіжної культури, гендеру та споживацтва, її документальний фільм «Королева Версаля» отримав нагороду за найкращого режисера документальних фільмів на фестивалі «Санденс» у 2012 році. Її фотографії широко публікувалися, виставлялися та колекціонувалися, а її рекламний ролик для Супербоулу «Як дівчина» став вірусним та отримав нагороди за рекламу 2015 року.

Джульєт Шор — письменниця, економістка, культурна критикиня та професорка соціології в Бостонському коледжі. Її дослідження зосереджені на економіці праці, витратах, довкіллі та споживчій культурі.

Труді Вілнер Стек понад десять років була кураторкою виставок та колекцій у Центрі креативної фотографії Університету Аризони, після чого обіймала посади в Пенсильванській академії образотворчих мистецтв, Міжнародному центрі фотографії та Бірмінгемському музеї мистецтв. Вона курувала десятки виставок сучасної та історичної фотографії по всьому світу та є частим автором та лектором.

Lee Miller not only Man Ray’s muse, but above all a professional in her own right

Model, photographer, muse, the first female war correspondent to report the horrors of the concentration camps liberated by American troops, and 20th-century icon. Lee Miller was all this and much more. She went through life with passion and determination and life repaid her with love and friends, but also with pain and posthumous, or at least tardy, acknowledgement.

Through approximately 140 photographs by Lee Miller and Man Ray, some objects d’art, and video documents loaned by Lee Miller Archives and Fondazi one Marconi, this book intends to do justice to this woman as beautiful as she was clever and talented, taking her out of Man Ray’s overpowering shadow. It will reveal a deep but complicated relationship more objectively (Man Ray was first her teacher, then lover, and in the end friend), and document the effect they both had on each other and how it inspired their work.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition in Venice, the volume features texts by the curator, Ami Bouhassane (Miller’s grand-daughter), and Anthony Pen rose (Miller’s son). Moreover it includes portraits by Man Ray of friends and important protagonists of the period (Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso, Giorgio de Chirico, Jean Cocteau, Salvador Dalí), as well as surrealist shots of Lee Miller in which she seeks to investigate and reveal her soul and torments.

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The exhibition offers a portrait of Surrealism through two of its greatest exponents, with more than 100 photographs, art works and new relevant documentation.

In 1929, Elizabeth “Lee” Miller, a young American model often seen in Vogue magazine, arrived in Paris with the intention of becoming a photographer. Uninvited and with no prior introduction, she presented herself at the studio of Man Ray, a noted Surrealist artist and photographer specializing in portraits of contemporary society, insisting that she become his apprentice. The encounter marked the beginning of a life-long relationship. The years 1929-1932 were a time of particularly fertile collaboration, during which the fiercely independent, highly-motivated Lee was soon alternating in the roles of apprentice, photography assistant, lover and muse. After that period, Lee opened and successfully managed her own studio. As prominent figures in avant-garde society (Paris, New York and London) and close friends of such leading artists as Picasso, Jean Cocteau, Max Ernst, and Paul Eluard, Ray and Miller formed part of the early liberal surrealist milieu of the 20s and 30s.

The book, published to complement the Milan exhibition, aims to establish Miller’s remarkable talent as a photographer, setting her on a par with Man Ray, whose work has tended to overshadow hers, and to re-examine the couple’s professional and personal relationship. It also reveals the crucial ways in which Lee Miller inspired Man Ray’s work at that time as well as later, including the discovery of the photographic technique of solarization, which quickly became Ray’s most widely-recognized style. Through a wide selection of their portraits of famous people, their relationship is used as a lens through which to critically re-evaluate and re-interpret the relationship between the two within the Surrealist movement and the broader avant-garde society of Paris between the mid-20s and the late 30s.

About the Author:

Victoria Noel-Johnson is an independent British art historian and curator, specialising in early 20th century European art.

An intimate, one-of-a-kind photographic journey that documents Liam Wong’s nocturnal wanderings through the world’s most captivating cities

Liam Wong’s world starts after dark and ends at first light. When the night draws in and the lights go down, his urban explorations and cinematic narratives truly begin.

In his previous career as a game designer, Wong learned that ‘real life is just as potent, bizarre and interesting as things we can imagine.’ In his début monograph, TO:KY:OO, he captured the beauty of the city at night. In this new publication, Wong widens his lens from the city that became his photographic muse to Osaka, Kyoto, London, Seoul, Paris and more.

The eerie emptiness of London’s Piccadilly Circus at 4:00 am, silhouettes in Seoul captured during monsoon season, a salaryman waiting on an empty subway platform in Tokyo’s Akihabara district in front of the world’s largest electronics store – mysterious ghosts representing lives lived in shadow, portrayed as intricate cinematic visions, all before the sun rises. In this evocative study of cities after midnight, Wong documents how people and places are altered when darkness falls. He weaves slivers of life, delicate and covert threads, into an insomniac’s journey through the solitude and uncertainty of the night.

Contents List:

Intro
1. Society
2. Alone Together
3. Solitude
4. Emptiness

About the Author:

Liam Wong is an award-winning freelance art director. Graphic designer, former game developer and now photographer, he is best known for defining, designing and directing visual identities. His first book, the bestselling TO:KY:OO, was published by Volume and Thames & Hudson in 2019.

Надзвичайний рекорд чудових фотографій, які були зроблені, відредаговані та зроблені

Небагато книг про фотографію можуть претендувати на те, щоб бути справді новаторськими. Одним із них було перше видання Magnum Contact Sheets. Ця виняткова книга, вперше представлена ​​тут у новому доступному форматі за демократичною ціною, розповідає, як фотографи Magnum знімають і редагують найкращі знімки. Вирішуючи ключові питання фотографічної практики: чи було кінцеве зображення монтажем чи випадковою зустріччю; чи фотограф старанно працював, щоб витягти потенціал із ситуації, чи мав місце легендарний «вирішальний момент»? - ця книга розкриває творчі методи, стратегії та процеси редагування, які лежать в основі деяких із найвідоміших зображень у світі.

Представлено 139 контактних аркушів, що представляють 69 фотографів, а також деталі збільшеного масштабу, вибрані фотографії, прес-картки, блокноти та розвороти з сучасних видань, у тому числі журналу Life та Picture Post. Подальше уявлення про кожну контактну сторінку надається за допомогою текстів, написаних самими фотографами або експертами, обраними членськими фондами.

Включено багато визнаних великих фотографів, таких як Анрі Картьє-Брессон, Елліот Ервітт та Інге Морат, а також останнє покоління Magnum, такі як Йонас Бендіксен, Алессандра Сангінетті та Алек Сот. Ці фотографи охоплюють понад сімдесят років історії, від висадки в Нормандії Роберта Капи, паризьких заворушень 1968 року Бруно Барбі та війни в Чечні Томаса Дворжака до зображень Че Гевари Рене Буррі, Малкольма Ікс Єви Арнольд і класичних жителів Нью-Йорка Брюса Гілдена.

Ця знакова книга, опублікована саме тоді, коли перехід до цифрової фотографії загрожує застаріти аркуш для контактів, прославляє аркуш як артефакт, як особистий та історичний запис, як безцінний інструмент редагування та як захоплюючий спосіб супроводжувати видатних фотографів у їхній роботі над і створенням найбільш стійких зображень нашого часу.

Про автора:

Крістен Луббен, колишній багаторічний куратор Міжнародного центру фотографії, тепер є виконавчим директором Magnum Foundation.

The photographer and visual artist Erik Johansson creates surreal worlds through his own unique method. It often takes him months just to make one image, in a process where his photographs are combined so that an original place emerges. The result is often humorous, sometimes even scary, but always mind-blowing. Erik Johansson has become world-famous through his captivating and detailed images. This is his biggest book so far, presenting almost a hundred of his best images in large format. He also reveals the secrets of his methods and shares many of the original sketches that work both as a concept and as a road map to his art.

About the Author:

Erik Johansson was born in Sweden and started taking pictures when his parents gave him a digital camera for his 15th birthday. He has lived in Berlin and currently lives in Prague. His pictures have been exhibited all over the world and his latest major exhibition is opening at Fotografiska in Stockholm in December 2019.

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Пролистать книгу Make Believe: Erik Johansson

The photographer and visual artist Erik Johansson creates surreal worlds through his own unique method. It often takes him months just to make one image, in a process where his photographs are combined so that an original place emerges. The result is often humorous, sometimes even scary, but always mind-blowing. Erik Johansson has become world-famous through his captivating and detailed images. This is his biggest book so far, presenting almost a hundred of his best images in large format. He also reveals the secrets of his methods and shares many of the original sketches that work both as a concept and as a road map to his art.

About the Author:

Erik Johansson was born in Sweden and started taking pictures when his parents gave him a digital camera for his 15th birthday. He has lived in Berlin and currently lives in Prague. His pictures have been exhibited all over the world and his latest major exhibition is opening at Fotografiska in Stockholm in December 2019.

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Пролистать книгу Make Believe: Erik Johansson

A close look at Man Ray’s interwar portraiture, as well as the friendships between the photographer and his subjects: the international avant garde in Paris

Shortly after his arrival in Paris in July 1921, Man Ray (1890–1976) — the pseudonym of Emmanuel Radnitzky — embarked on a sustained campaign to document the city’s international avant-garde in a series of remarkable portraits that established his reputation as one of the leading photographers of his era. Man Ray’s subjects included cultural luminaries such as Berenice Abbott, André Breton, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp, Ernest Hemingway, Miriam Hopkins, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, Lee Miller, Méret Oppenheim, Pablo Picasso, Alice Prin (Kiki de Montparnasse), Elsa Schiaparelli, Erik Satie, and Gertrude Stein. As this lavishly illustrated publication demonstrates, Man Ray’s portraits went beyond recording the mere outward appearance of the person depicted and aimed instead to capture the essence of his sitters as creative individuals, as well as the collective nature and character of Les Années folles (the crazy years) of Paris between the two world wars, when the city became famous the world over as a powerful and evocative symbol of artistic freedom and daring experimentation.

About the Author:

Michael R. Taylor is chief curator and deputy director for art and education at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond.

Ciao! Mario Testino’s ode to Italy

Widely regarded as one of the most influential fashion and portrait photographers, Mario Testino is responsible for the creation of emblematic images, transmitting emotion and energy in an open and intimate way. Throughout his four-decade career, Testino has been on a journey beyond the world of fashion capturing Earth’s traditions and cultures with unparalleled access and an extraordinarily unique point of view.

Peruvian by birth, Testino’s intimate connection to Italy found its roots in his Italian heritage, but blossomed when he experienced the country for himself. Discovering Italy was, for Testino, synonymous with discovering his passion for fashion. “Rome was all about the hottest, latest trends and fresh new styling, and I loved the way Italians could shed the latest look for an even newer thing without ever losing their own identity.”

In Ciao, Testino handpicks his favorite images of Italy, a country that has featured heavily in his life, from his friendships and breathtaking vistas to quintessentially Italian iconic fashion shoots and Italians’ ever-evolving allure to their effervescent lifestyle. Featuring three sections, IN GIRO (out and about), ALLA MODA (in fashion), and AL MARE (at sea), the result is a highly personal journey across the country through Testino’s lens paying homage to Italy, and it’s culture as well as a chronicle of 40 years of genre-defining photography.

Also available in an Art Edition limited to 100 copies, each with a signed print by Mario Testino

The photographer and author:

With a four decades career as a leader in the fields of fashion, culture and lifestyle, Peruvian-born Mario Testino OBE has many facets that take him beyond the surface of a photographer and artist placing him as a cultural visionary. Testino’s universe is broad, his impact is uniquely powerful and his lifestyle is completely authentic. Testino’s has seen his works published and exhibited in hundreds of cities around the world. Throughout his career he built unprecedent relationships with editorial and commercial partners such as Vogue, Burberry, and Gucci to name a few. His past and present muses include HRH Princess Diana, Madonna, Donatella Versace, Kendall Jenner and Mariacarla Boscono. His solo exhibitions have shown in museums and galleries worldwide, including the National Portrait Gallery, London; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

The contributing author:

Alain Elkann is a New York–born author and journalist. Since 1989, he has maintained a weekly interview column for the Italian daily newspaper La Stampa. Elkann has lectured on art, Italian literature and Jewish studies at the Universities of Oxford, Columbia, Jerusalem, Pennsylvania and Milan’s IULM. He is President of The Foundation for Italian Art & Culture (FIAC) in New York and in 2009 was awarded the Légion d’Honneur by the French Republic.

Man in Focus. A gallery of men from photography’s maestro

“The way men are seen in photography, in fashion, and the way that men look at pictures of themselves has changed in recent years. It is a subject that has come into focus: The masculine image, a man's personal style, changing attitudes to the male face and body.”
— Mario Testino

From Rio to London, Cusco to Seville, Mario Testino is renowned for his free-spirited chronicles of dress and demeanor. In SIR the influential photographer presents over 300 photographs in his search to define the allure of men.

Featuring an essay by Pierre Borhan, an interview with Patrick Kinmonth, and many previously unpublished works from Testino’s archive of thousands, this book traces the evolution of male identity over the past three decades. Costume, tradition, gender play, portraiture, photojournalism, and fashion collide as Testino observes masculinity in all its modern manifestations: through the dandy and the gentleman, the macho and the fey, the world-famous face to the unknown passerby.

Every photograph represents a unique point of view, and a new visual connection between photographer and sitter. With Josh Hartnett for VMAN (2005), Testino evokes the fall of Helmut Berger in the abyss of Luchino Visconti’s The Damned. Studies of Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Jude Law and Colin Firth are as candid as they are curious. David Beckham, David Bowie, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards feature for the courage they have taken in redefining male identity. Through a kaleidoscope of guises, these portraits define a period in which men’s changing role, style and appearance has never escaped Testino’s eye and impeccable intuition.

The photographer:

With a four decades career as a leader in the fields of fashion, culture and lifestyle, Peruvian-born Mario Testino OBE has many facets that take him beyond the surface of a photographer and artist placing him as a cultural visionary. Testino’s universe is broad, his impact is uniquely powerful and his lifestyle is completely authentic. Testino’s has seen his works published and exhibited in hundreds of cities around the world. Throughout his career he built unprecedent relationships with editorial and commercial partners such as Vogue, Burberry, and Gucci to name a few. His past and present muses include HRH Princess Diana, Madonna, Donatella Versace, Kendall Jenner and Mariacarla Boscono. His solo exhibitions have shown in museums and galleries worldwide, including the National Portrait Gallery, London; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

The editor:

Patrick Kinmonth is a creative polymath, working across opera, film, dance, architecture, and exhibition design. He has collaborated with Mario Testino since the 1980s, when he commissioned the young Testino’s earliest portraits for British Vogue.

The author:

Pierre Borhan is a writer, curator, and art collector. Former editor in chief of Clichés magazine, he was also director of photographic heritage at the French Ministry of Culture between 1988 and 2003.

About the series:

TASCHEN is 40! Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible publishing, helping bookworms around the world curate their own library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia at an unbeatable price. Today we celebrate 40 years of incredible books by staying true to our company credo. The 40 series presents new editions of some of the stars of our program — now more compact, friendly in price, and still realized with the same commitment to impeccable production.

Mark Seliger’s extraordinary portfolio is 30 years in the making.

In 1987 Seliger began shooting small assignments for Rolling Stone; in 1992 he became their chief photographer, a position he kept for 15 years. During the course of his time at the magazine, he photographed more than 125 covers. He has captured some of the most iconic images of the most famous and influential faces of our time, including Kurt Cobain, Nelson Mandela, Leonardo DiCaprio, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Emma Stone, Angelina Jolie, Bruce Springsteen, David Byrne, Matthew Barney, Jennifer Lawrence, Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, Jerry Seinfeld, Jay-Z, Misty Copeland, Amy Schumer, and Paul McCartney.

Mark Seliger Photographs showcases his best-known portraiture, as well as never before seen outtakes and select standouts from his landscape and personal work including portraits of Holocaust survivors and transgender men and women on Christopher Street, and documentary photography of Cuba. Accompanying the photographs is an interview between Mark Seliger and Judd Apatow, in which Seliger shares stories behind some of his most iconic work: Kurt Cobain showing up for a Rolling Stone shoot in a “Corporate Magazines Still Suck” T-shirt; taking a road trip with Brad Pitt; and navigating a room full of Tibetan monks while shooting His Holiness the Dalai Lama. In addition, the book also features an essay by Lyle Lovett. Mark Seliger Photographs is the ultimate celebration of one of the most in-demand portrait photographers.

About the author:

Mark Seliger is a preeminent American photographer. Seliger began working for Rolling Stone in 1987, and served as its chief photographer from 1992 to 2001. His work has appeared in Vanity Fair, ELLE, GQ, Vogue Italia, The New Yorker, Purple, and in museums and galleries worldwide. He lives in New York City.

Цікава колекція фотографій їжі Мартіна Парра, яка документує просте уявлення про те, що «ми є те, що ми їмо».

Real Food прославляє все, що пов'язано з їжею, очима відомого британського фотографа Мартіна Парра – калейдоскоп страв з усього світу, від хот-догів до липких булочок і лангустінів до лимонного пирога з безе.

Книги Real Food містить фотографії, зроблені протягом усієї плідної кар'єри Мартіна Парра, і включатиме найкращі культові знімки Парра – колекцію знімків їжі крупним планом у типових яскравих кольорах, зроблених Парром під час його подорожей світом.

Вступ до неї – есе Фергуса Хендерсона, британського шеф-кухаря та засновника ресторану St John's у Лондоні, яке розглядає фотографії Парра в контексті світової кухні та захоплення Парра соціальним аспектом їжі, що лежить в основі цих фотографій.

Про автора:

Роботи Мартіна Парра з'єднують художню та документальну фотографію. Його дослідження особливостей масової культури та споживацтва в усьому світі, його інноваційні образи та плідна творчість міцно поставили його на передній план сучасного мистецтва. Будучи членом міжнародного фотоагентства Magnum, Парр є завзятим колекціонером книг та світовим авторитетом у галузі фотокниг.

Фергус Хендерсон — британський шеф-кухар та автор кулінарних книг, який відкрив лондонський ресторан St. John у 1994 році, а пізніше St. John Bread and Wine, що отримав широке визнання критиків. Він добре відомий своєю простою, стриманою кухнею та філософією «їсти від носа до хвоста», що також є назвою його першої кулінарної книги.

The first career retrospective of leading contemporary photographer Mona Kuhn

Mona Kuhn: Works is the first retrospective by one of the most respected and widely exhibited contemporary art photographers at work in the world today. Over a career spanning more than twenty years, Kuhn’s underlying theme has always been humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity. She is renowned for developing close relationships with her subjects, resulting in images of remarkable intimacy. Her use of playful visual strategies reveals glimpses into the psyche as it is expressed through the human form, ultimately reinterpreting the nude in the canon of contemporary art.

Featuring images from throughout Kuhn’s career, including previously unseen work, this book introduces her distinct aesthetic to a wide, popular audience. Texts by Rebecca Morse, Chris Littlewood, Darius Himes and Simon Baker, and an interview with Elizabeth Avedon, offer invaluable insights into Kuhn’s creative process and the ways in which she works with her subjects and settings, and achieves the visual signature of her imagery. Mona Kuhn: Works is an essential volume for anyone with an interest in the human form in contemporary art.

Contents List:

Introduction by Rebecca Morse • 1. Evidence 2000-2007 • 2. Native 2007-2009 • 3. Venezia 2009-2010 • In Conversation: Interview by Elizabeth Avedon • 5. Bordeaux Series 2009-2011 • Essay by Simon Baker • 6. Private 2012-2014 • 7. Bushes and Succulents 2017-2018 • 8. She Disappeared into Complete Silence 2014-2019

About the Author:

Mona Kuhn (b. 1969) is a Brazilian photographer of German descent. She has lived and worked in Los Angeles since 1989 and is currently an independent scholar at the Getty Research Institute. Her previous series-based monographs include Mona Kuhn: Photographs, Mona Kuhn: Evidence and Mona Kuhn: Private. Rebecca Morse is the Curator of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at LACMA. Simon Baker is the Director of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP) in Paris. He was previously Curator of Photography and International Art at Tate. Elizabeth Avedon is a photography book and exhibition designer, independent curator and writer.

Друга книга Мотмайстера: ще більша та неземніша

У Dark & ​​Dystopian Post Mortem Fairy Tales Mothmeister — двоголове альтер-его анонімного бельгійського мистецького дуету — віддає належне багатьом музам, які створили його тривожний і ексцентричний світ мрій.

Вони варіюються від митців з усього світу, легендарних постатей і міфів і химерної колекції таксидермії до пустельних місць, де народилися найгротескніші та часто меланхолійні персонажі, такі як жахливі катакомби капуцинів у Палермо, покинуте неземне місто Піраміда на Шпіцбергені та місце Чорнобильської катастрофи.

Усе це переливається в унікальну казкову країну, яка заграє з хворобливими, релігійними та часто клоунськими речами, де тварин-таксидермії повертаються до життя найнезвичайнішими способами.

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Антиутопічний світ мрій двоголового бельгійського альтер-его Мотмейстера інтригує понад 250 тисяч підписників в Instagram по всьому світу. Їх похмурі казкові персонажі, що безупинно мутують, віддають данину таксидермії. Музи Мотмейстера? Їхня вражаюча приватна колекція опудал тварин, масок, костюмів, численні міжнародні художники, з якими вони співпрацюють, і їхня нестримна жага до подорожей.

Це розширена й оновлена ​​версія основоположної книги Nan Goldin The Other Side, яка була опублікована в 1993 році. Буде переглянутий вступ Голдін і вперше звучатимуть голоси тих, чиї історії представлені. Зараз, випущений у час, коли дискурс навколо статі та сексуальної орієнтації еволюціонує, «Інша сторона» простежує частину історії, яка інформує цю нову видимість.

Перші фотографії в книзі датуються 1970-ми роками, коли Голдін жив у Бостоні з групою драг-квінів і задокументував їх гламур і вразливість. На початку вісімдесятих Голдін описувала життя друзів-трансгендерів у Нью-Йорку, коли СНІД почав знищувати її спільноту. У дев’яності роки вона зафіксувала вибух драг як соціального явища в Нью-Йорку, Берліні, Бангкоку та на Філіппінах, фотографуючи їхні публічні персони, одночасно показуючи їх реальне життя за лаштунками. Найновіші фотографії Голдін – це інтимні портрети, пронизані ніжністю, деяких її найулюбленіших друзів.The Other Side — це її шана королевам, яких вона любила, багатьох із яких вона втратила за останні чотири десятиліття.

Three years after the conclusion of his trilogy, On This Earth, A Shadow Falls, Across the Ravaged Land, Nick Brandt returns to East Africa to photograph the escalating changes to the continent’s natural world.

In a series of epic panoramas, Brandt records the impact of man in places where animals used to roam, but no longer do. In each location, Brandt erects a life size panel of one of his animal portrait photographs, setting the panels within a world of explosive urban development, factories, wasteland and quarries.

The people within the photographs are oblivious to the presence of the panels and the animals featured in them, who are now no more than ghosts in the landscape. Some of the animals in the panels appear to be looking out at these destroyed landscapes with sadness, as if lamenting the loss of the world they once inhabited. By the end, we see that it is not just the animals who are the victims in this out of control world, but also the humans.

Inherit the Dust also includes plates of the original portraits of the animals that are featured in the life-size panels, the unique emotional animal portraiture for which Brandt is recognized.

There are also two essays by the artist: a text about the crisis facing the conservation of the natural world in East Africa, and behind-the-scenes descriptions of Brandt's elaborate production process, with accompanying documentary photographs.

About the Author:

Nick Brandt (b.1964) is an English-born, US-based photographer whose themes always relate to the disappearing natural world. He is the co-founder of the Big Life Foundation, in Kenya, where all of these photographs were shot.