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While the Fires Burn - A Glacier Odyssey (Hardcover)
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While the Fires Burn - A Glacier Odyssey (Hardcover)
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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.
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