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When the International Center of Photography launched Strangers, its first Triennial, in 2003, its curators wrote that their goal was "to demonstrate photography’s incomparable richness as a visual medium--in the form of still photographs, video, sculptural objects, and installation pieces. The result is a dynamic coherence that results as much from a dialogue between individual works as from curatorial intention." This second time out, in a period of rampant natural disasters and concerns about global environmental change, they have shifted their attention from strangers, from our relationships with one another, to home, to our relationships with the earth. Ecotopia, brings readers the natural world through the eyes and lenses of some of the most interesting and engaging photographers working today. These 30 international artists shatter stereotypes of landscape and nature imagery to examine new concepts of the natural sphere occasioned by twenty-first-century technologies. They capture our destructive engagement with the environment and develop visions of our future, both better and worse. Ecotopia considers nature in the broadest sense, and offers new perspectives on the planet that sustains, enchants and, increasingly, frightens.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #756779 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-15
• Released on: 2006-10-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 380 pages

Customer Reviews

nice collection
Ecotopia is a fine collection of images from artists wrestling with the complexities of the reciprocal relationship between humanity and the environment. The virtual roundtable discussion at the beginning of the book is interesting and helps prepare a lens through which to view the work which ranges broadly in styles, methods and interpretation from the classic images of Robert Adams to the aerial works of David Maisel and digital creations of Joan Fontcuberta. It is an intriguing collection for those interested in photography and/or those interested in ecology and ethics.