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Airports in lockdown: still lifes from a pandemic by an acclaimed aerial photographer German photographer Tom Hegen (born 1991), internationally for with his aerial photographs, here documents Germany's airports at the height of 2020's lockdown, depicting these abandoned zones with geometric clarity.
The work of photographer Tom Hegen (b. 1991) deals with human interventions in natural habitats.His photographs document the strong impact human beings' have on our environment and show how we have altered our landscape through our actions.Including many impressive aerial photos, this photo book invites viewers to discover their environment from a new perspective, to comprehend the scale of human interventions on our earth's surface, and, ultimately, to assume responsibility.English and German text.
Since the birth of photography, photographers have been taking images of the earth from the air – with spectacular visual results. Celebrating over 150 years of these incredible images, From Above tells the fascinating story of how these pictures were created and the photographers that have propelled image–taking to bold new heights. Taking advantage of the amazing sense of perspective that aerial photography offers, this incredible collection of images also offers a unique overview of the events, challenges, and changes of the past 150 years of human history. "[Anyone who buys From Above]– will find thumbing through it over and over again irresistible. Because it contains some of the ...
This catalogue accompanies a touring exhibition held at Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany on March 4-May 29, 2016, at Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany on June 11-September 18, 2016, at High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia on October 16, 2016-January 8, 2017, and at St Louis Art Museum, St Louis, Missouri in Fall 2017.
The images in 'Industrial Scars' and the narrative that accompanies them tell the story of the impact of the consumer life-style on the natural systems that support life on the planet. These photographs, mostly aerial and taken at locations around the world, are masterworks of composition and colour, made with a nod to the great abstract painters of modern art. This book is the result of countless hours of research and careful planning by New York photographer J. Henry Fair, who travels to the locations and charters a small plane to photograph areas usually fenced off from prying eyes so he can get a true view of our real footprint. This is a new edition.
Inka (*1985, Finland) and Niclas (* 1984, Sweden) Lindergard is an award-winning artist duo who work primarily with photography-based art.They have worked together since 2007 and are based in Stockholm. With starting points in popular culture their work circulates around investigations on the photograph as a carrier of a mysterious image of nature.Their imagery spans from the search engines and their algorithmic answers on what nature looks like, to an aesthetic appropriated from nature religions, occultism and spiritual postcards.Their new series The Belt of Venus and the Shadow of the Earth revolve around performative photographic acts that can only be experienced through the photograph, an investigation into the act of taking a photograph and the camera's role as a bridge between the physical world and the photographic.This beautiful, large-format publication accompanies the exhibition, The Belt of Venus and the Shadow of the Earth at Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, Stockholm, 10 September - 29 October 2016.
Alastair Philip Wiper's precisionist-style color photographs of technology and industry, from CERN to Adidas factories Copenhagen-based British photographer Alastair Philip Wiper (born 1980)--known for his journalistic photography in Wired, The Guardian, Scientific American, Wallpaper and Vice--explores the technological and digital revolution in his color photographs of factories, labs, shipyards and industrial sites in this new monograph.
Combines head-shot photographs from vinyl record sleeves with inventive poses to create a hilarious series of more than two hundred images from around the globe, in a colorful volume that pays tribute to the international Internet craze. Original.
In this delightful Read & Listen ebook, when a strange egg appears in their nest, Mr. and Mrs. Bird kindly take it upon themselves to raise the "baby bird" inside. But when the egg hatches, the Birds are in for a big surprise—"Junior" is the oddest-looking baby bird they've ever seen—with big, long jaws full of teeth and an appetite to match. In fact, he looks more like a baby alligator than a baby bird! Nevertheless, the devoted Birds run themselves ragged feeding Junior until he gets so big, he must leave the nest or it will collapse underneath him. But how can Junior fly without wings? To the delight of the Birds—and readers!—the dilemma is solved when Junior takes off from a bran...
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