Nick Brandt: Inherit the Dust - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0692520546 ISBN 13: 9780692520543

Verlag: Edwynn Houk Editions, 2016

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In a series of epic African panoramas, Brandt records the impact of man in places where animals used to roam

Three years after the completion of his trilogy, On This Earth, A Shadow Falls Across the Ravaged Land, Nick Brandt returned to East Africa to photograph the escalating changes to the continent's natural world and its animals. In each location, Brandt erected a life-size panel of one of his portrait photographs—showing groups of elephants, rhinos, giraffes, lions, cheetahs and zebras—placing the displaced animals on sites of explosive urban development, new factories, wastelands and quarries. The contemporary figures within the photographs seem oblivious to the presence of the panels and the animals represented in them, who are now no more than ghosts in the landscape. Inherit the Dust includes this new body of panoramic photographs along with original portraits of the animals used in the panoramas, 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.

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Nick Brandt (born 1964) photographs exclusively in Africa. Born in Britain and currently based in Southern California, Brandt cofounded Big Life Foundation in 2010, which helps protect the endangered wildlife inhabiting a large area of East Africa.

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With Inherit The Dust, Nick Brandt returns to East Africa to photograph, in a unique and dramatically different way, the escalating changes to the continent’s natural world and its animals. In a series of epic panoramas, Brandt photographs in places where the animals used to roam, but due to the impact of man, no longer do. In each location, Brandt erects a life-size panel of portrait photographs that include groups of elephants, rhinos, giraffes, lions, cheetahs and zebra setting the panels within a world of explosive urban development, factories, wasteland and quarries. The panoramas constitute two thirds of the book. The final third features portraits of the animals that were featured in the panels, the kind of iconic animal portraiture for which Brandt is globally recognized. Vicki Goldberg, art critic and author, writes about the work: ‘Nick Brandt’s ravishing portraits of African animals are like premonitory memorials. In Inherit the Dust, his astonishing panoramas of those portraits installed lifesize in industrial and urban wastelands that have trampled the animals’ habitats are a jolting combination of beauty, decay, and admonishment. The result is an eloquent and complex ‘J’accuse’, for the people are as victimized by ‘development’ as the animals are. The breadth, detail and incongruity of Brandt’s panoramas suggest a collision between Bruegel and an apocalypse in waiting.’ Kathryn Bigelow, Film Director (The Hurt Locker), writes: ‘Nick Brandt’s unvarnished, harrowing but stunning new work brings us face to face with a crisis, both social and environmental, demanding the renewal of humanity itself.’

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Edwynn Houk Editions
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0692520546
• ISBN 13: 9780692520543
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 124
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