Anthropocene
Gottingen: Steidl Publishers, 2018.
First Edition. Hardcover.
Anthropocene is a multidisciplinary body of work by Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier, which includes this photobook, a major travelling museum exhibition, a feature-length documentary film, and an interactive educational website. The project's starting point is the research of the Anthropocene Working Group, an international body of scientists who argue that the Holocene epoch ended around 1950, and that we have officially entered the Anthropocene in recognition of profound and lasting human changes to the Earth's system.
Edward Burtynsky is a Canadian photographer and artist known for his large format photographs of industrial landscapes. His photographic work here illustrates the devastation wrought by industrialization on countless locations around the world and its impact on nature and the human experience. Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier are Canadian filmmakers. The work is seasoned with Margaret Atwood's poetry.
With the following textual contributions:
- Life in the Anthropocene by Edward Burtynsky
- The Mirror of Our Nature: Edward Burtynsky’s Images of the Anthropocene by Suzaan Boettger
- The Plasticene Suite by Margaret Atwood
- The Anthropocene and Its “Golden Spike” by Colin Waters & Jan Zalasiewicz
- Evidence by Nicholas de Pencier
- Our Embedded Signal by Jennifer Baichwal
- Glossary of terms
ISBN: 9783958294899
14-1/2 x 11-1/2", brown cloth with silver and black titles, glossary of terms, fully illustrated with Burtynsky's disturbing photographs.
Fine in dust wrapper with a bit of surface wear to extreme upper corner of front panel at flap.
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Price: $200.00