Damodar a Riverscape: Landscape Photo-documentary & Fragmented Chronicle of a Little Known River - Hardcover

Mukherjee, Bhaskar; Kundu, Apratim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 089304699X ISBN 13: 9780893046996

Verlag: Cross Cultural Communications, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

Unlike many famous rivers, Damodar has hardly been documented pictorially. Both the culture and the landscape that evolved around the banks of this river have also largely remained beneath the radar of mainstream media.

However, there is a kaleidoscope of great stories around Damodar where great floods, intriguing legends, eons of geological evolution, and human civilization merge together. From this cauldron, over course of time, the river has woven out its own stories. Stories that are nested within its geographical and natural contours and yet stories that eventually spin beyond their origins.

This book is a visual narrative of how these diverse, fragmented, and often unexplored stories have evolved over time, metamorphosed, and eventually created a chronicle of the river.

"Water, our most vital gift of nature for all living species, including us, is in a precarious state of abuse across our planet. Having spent much time in India working on water-related issues, Bhaskar's visual depth of this crisis is a weighted tome of our time. A calling, for all of us, into our need to pay attention. In what we do to our earth, ourselves, on the only place we can live. Earth."--John Stanmeyer

A mighty chronicle! Leafing through these informative and visually arresting pages, I thought of a poem by Langston Hughes that ends thus:

I've known rivers:

Ancient, dusky rivers.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers

--Gabriel Rosenstock, Irish poet, playwright, haikuist, tankaist, essayist, and author-translator of over 200 books, Member Aosd·na (Irish academy of arts & letters

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

A landscape photo artist, deeply influenced by the mysteries of nature, and a profound believer of life's goodness. Founder of Srishtisandhan - an online treasure-trove of contemporary Bengali parallel literature, Srishtisandhan Academy - a voluntary organization dedicated towards the education and cultural upliftment of underprivileged children and Lightscribes - a Photography institution promoting visual literacy through the language of photography. Website: srishtisandhan.com

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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cross Cultural Communications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 089304699X
• ISBN 13: 9780893046996
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 162
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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