The Evolution of Ivanpah Solar - Hardcover

Stillings, Jamey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 386930913X ISBN 13: 9783869309132

Verlag: Steidl Verlag, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

In this new monograph, Jamey Stillings synthesizes his environmental interests with a long-held fascination for the intersections of nature and human activity. In October 2010, before construction commenced, Stillings began a three-and-a-half year aerial exploration over what has become the world’s largest concentrated solar power plant, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (Ivanpah) in the Mojave Desert of California. From the simple and stark terrain of the pre-construction landscape to the angular forms of the completed solar plant producing 392 megawatts of electricity on 14 square kilometers of public land, Stillings takes us on a journey of transformation, exploring dynamic interactions between raw organic forms of nature and those defined by the project’s precise geometric lines. Shooting fluidly and concisely from a helicopter during first and last light, Stillings’ striking black and white images intrigue with tight abstractions, oblique views of geologic and geometric forms, and broad open views of the dramatic desert basin within which the solar plant and other marks of man reside. Ironically, renewable energy projects, like Ivanpah, also raise challenging questions about land and resource use. Over the course of his work, Stillings observed disparate perspectives and contradictions within the environmental movement, local communities, the energy industry, and general public. Though Ivanpah was built in the American Southwest, the promise and challenge of renewable energy bring forth issues that are global in nature. Stillings’ larger project, Changing Perspectives, will explore the global state of renewable energy development. The road to a sustainable future remains undefined. Stillings’ photographs strive to participate in our contemporary discussion about the environment and climate change, while providing imagery that will quickly impart historical perspective.

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Jamey Stillings was born in 1955 and grew up in Oregon. His three-decade career spans documentary, fine art and commercial projects. He earned a BA in Art from Willamette University and an MFA in Photography from Rochester Institute of Technology (1982). Stillings’ work is exhibited internationally and is in the collections of the United States Library of Congress; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Nevada Museum of Art; University of Nevada, Las Vegas; and JGS. His monograph The Bridge at Hoover Dam was published in 2011. He was awarded the 2013 Eliot Porter Grant and was a recent speaker at TEDxABQ 2014. Stillings currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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In this book Jamey Stillings synthesizes his environmental interests with a long-held fascination for the intersections of nature and human activity. In October 2010, before construction commenced, Stillings began a three-and-a-halfyear aerial exploration over what has become the world’s largest concentrated solar power plant, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in the Mojave Desert of California. From the stark terrain of the pre-construction landscape to the angular forms of the completed solar plant with the capacity to produce 392 megawatts of electricity on 14 square kilometers of public land, Stillings explores transformative interactions between raw natural forms and the project’s precise geometric lines. Photographing from a helicopter during first and last light, Stillings’s images incorporate tight abstractions, oblique views of geologic forms, and broad open views of the dramatic desert basin. Renewable energy projects like Ivanpah ironically question our perceptions of land and resource use, and Stillings has observed contradictions within the environmental movement, local communities, the energy industry and general public. Though Ivanpah was built in the American Southwest, the promise and challenge of renewable energy also raise global issues. (Stillings’s larger project, “Changing Perspectives,” will explore the global state of renewable energy development.) Along our uncertain path toward a sustainable future, The Evolution of Ivanpah Solar both forms part of the contemporary discussion on climate change and imparts an historical perspective.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Steidl Verlag
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 386930913X
• ISBN 13: 9783869309132
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 154
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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