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A stunning portrait of the nocturnal moths of Central and South
America by famed American photographer Emmet Gowin American
photographer Emmet Gowin (b. 1941) is best known for his portraits
of his wife, Edith, and their family, as well as for his images
documenting the impact of human activity upon landscapes around the
world. For the past fifteen years, he has been engaged in an
equally profound project on a different scale, capturing the
exquisite beauty of more than one thousand species of nocturnal
moths in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, and Panama. These
stunning color portraits present the insects--many of which may
never have been photographed as living specimens before, and some
of which may not be seen again--arrayed in typologies of
twenty-five per sheet. The moths are photographed alive, in natural
positions and postures, and set against a variety of backgrounds
taken from the natural world and images from art history.
Throughout Gowin's distinguished career, his work has addressed
urgent concerns. The arresting images of Mariposas Nocturnas extend
this reach, as Gowin fosters awareness for a part of nature that is
generally left unobserved and calls for a greater awareness of the
biodiversity and value of the tropics as a universally shared
natural treasure. An essay by Gowin provides a fascinating personal
history of his work with biologists and introduces both the
photographic and philosophical processes behind this extraordinary
project. Essential reading for audiences both in photography and
natural history, this lavishly illustrated volume reminds readers
that, as Terry Tempest Williams writes in her foreword, "The world
is saturated with loveliness, inhabited by others far more adept at
living with uncertainty than we are."
A powerful photographic survey of the impact of irrigation systems
on the landscape of the United States In The One Hundred Circle
Farm, renowned photographer Emmet Gowin (b. 1941) presents stunning
aerial images of center-pivot irrigation systems in the western and
midwestern United States. This type of farming involves a method of
watering crops in which equipment rotates around a centrally
drilled well, creating enormous, distinct circles of irrigated
land, often in the midst of dry terrain. Anyone who has taken a
cross-country flight has likely seen countless acres of these
iconic symbols of industrial agriculture. Through a faithful yet
personal photographic survey, Gowin's powerful images not only bear
witness to the ambitions humans wield in shaping the landscape, but
also attest to how such primal elements-circles, pivots, and
lines-symbolize water depletion and the fragile environment. The
stark photographic compositions, more than one hundred in all, were
created over eight years. Fields resemble lost civilizations; crops
gape like strange new suns. Hauntingly beautiful, the images
highlight Earth's nourishing geology, visual evidence of our
labors. Inscribed onto the earth, these lines are reminders of the
technology extracting unimaginable amounts of water that cannot be
replaced, and raise questions about what large-scale irrigation
must answer for when the water runs out. With an afterword by
anthropologist Lucas Bessire discussing the history and impact of
pivot irrigation on American farming, The One Hundred Circle Farm
stands as a poetic visual record, evidence of the tenuous
connections between human enterprise and our planet's most precious
resource.
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The Nevada Test Site (Hardcover)
Emmet Gowin; Foreword by Robert Adams; Contributions by Robert Adams
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R1,211
Discovery Miles 12 110
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A photographic study of the land that served as the main testing
site for American nuclear devices for four decades More nuclear
bombs have been detonated in America than in any other country in
the world. Between 1951 and 1992, the Nevada National Security Test
Site was the primary location for these activities, withstanding
more than a thousand nuclear tests that left swaths of the American
Southwest resembling the moon. In The Nevada Test Site, renowned
American photographer Emmet Gowin (b. 1941) presents staggering
aerial photographs of this powerfully evocative place. Gowin
remains the only photographer granted official and sustained access
to the Nevada Test Site. For this book, he has revisited his
original negatives, made in 1996 and 1997, and fully three-quarters
of the images featured here have never been published before. These
images show blast areas where sand has been transformed to glass,
valleys pockmarked with hundreds of craters, trenches that
protected soldiers from blasts, areas used to bury radioactive
waste, and debris left behind following tests conducted as deep as
five thousand feet below the Earth's surface. Together, these
stunning, unsettling views unveil environmental travesties on a
grand scale. An essay by Gowin delves into the history of his work
at the site, including his decade-long efforts to secure entry, the
photographic equipment and techniques employed, and what the images
mean to him today. With a foreword by photographer and writer
Robert Adams, The Nevada Test Site stands as a testament to the
harms we inflict on our surroundings, the importance of bearing
witness, and the possibilities for aesthetic redemption and a more
hopeful future.
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