Foodchain: Encounters Between Mates, Predators, and Prey - Hardcover

Chalmers, Catherine

 
9780893818852: Foodchain: Encounters Between Mates, Predators, and Prey
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0893818852 ISBN 13: 9780893818852
Verlag: Aperture, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

A fresh look at the laws of nature, in startling, beautiful, and at times unsettling detail.

Working with a menagerie of insects and animals she raises in her New York City studio, Catherine Chalmers makes images that ask us to examine the lives we ordinarily overlook. What we find is by turns surprising, humorous, and thought
provoking.

In the series of photographs that gives the book its title, Chalmers vividly sketches the links between predator and prey, eater and eaten, from plant to insect to amphibian. Against a stark white background, caterpillars eat a tomato, a praying mantis eats a caterpillar, and a frog and a tarantula each eat a praying mantis. Another section, focused on "pinkies" (the pet-trade name for baby mice), shows with chilling clarity that the laws of nature apply equally to mammals as to the so-called "lower" life-forms. A series of photographs of praying mantises mating-during and after which the female devours the male-captures the metaphorical power and strange beauty of this infamous habit. The book includes an essay by the critically acclaimed nature writer Gordon Grice and a provocative interview with Chalmers by Aperture executive editor Michael L. Sand.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Catherine Chalmers has had solo exhibitions of her work at P.S. 1 in New York City and at the Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle. Her images have appeared in Harper's, Blind Spot, Aperture, and elsewhere. She lives in New York City.

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Verlag
Aperture
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0893818852
ISBN 13 
9780893818852
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
128
Herausgeber
Sand Michael L.
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