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French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand and his devoted team have spent five years putting together this voluminous gallery, selecting 195 images from 100,000 photographs taken from helicopters in the skies over 75 countries. It is a staggering achievement and precisely shows how vaguely we know our world. Statistics play a secondary, but vital, role; the text that accompanies the shots (a paragraph each, with a short essay adorning every chapter), highlights the degree to which we have abused our Eden, providing a sobering adjunct to what can at times be mistaken for a planetary holiday brochure. Of primary concern, however, are the pictures. Almost every plate is double page, reproduced in sumptuous vibrant colour, with helpful fold-out notes for each shot. The standard is a visual treat but, damn it, books should be luxurious sometimes. Huge African cotton bales become cauliflowers, logs floating down the Amazon are nothing more than matchsticks, the extraordinary contours of Turkey's Cappadocia are more like lunarscapes and South African sea-lions gathered to mate eerily echo an earlier crowd of curious humans in Côte D'Ivoire. In contrast, a solitary human figure frequently gives perspective to a shot, though occasionally superfluously, for the obliquity of perception can add resonant depth, reducing mighty river courses to glistening snail trails. Much on show is conventional, exceptional landscape photography, but Arthus-Bertrand also trains his lens on our fingerprints smudging the idyll, such as the depressingly overcrowded shanty towns, favelas of Rio de Janeiro or the sprawling communal rubbish heap of Mexico City. However, the hovering eye, like a benevolent celestial deity, cannot help but impose a fragile beauty even on these blights, reclaiming the scarring chaos from its despoilers and harnessing the sense of mortal finitism necessary for a solution of ecological sustained development to be convincingly reached. Arthus-Bertrand's desire to take his art "beyond the anecdotal", to give his subject the space in which to impose its own beauty, allows a gleefully conspiratorial voyeurism, at once empowering and humbling, that at its best captures something quasi-religious in its intense calm. As Louis Armstrong once growled, what a wonderful world. --David Vincent
This text refers to the first edition.
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To create The Earth from the Air, the world-renowned aerial photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand worked for more than five years, flying over sixty countries on every continent. His purpose was to provide a record of the world's environments as a benchmark for the future.
What kind of Earth will future generations inherit? How can we preserve the heritage of natural abundance that we share with past generations? These are the questions that propelled Arthus-Bertrand on his mission. The impact of population growth and technological progress on the natural equilibrium of the planer has been dramatic, particularly over the past fifty years, and the world's landscapes have been transformed as a result. Appropriately, many of Arthus-Bertrand's photographs give evidence of the imprint of human civilization on the face of the land. They are thus a record both of what has survived the mushrooming world industrial economy and of what changes it has wrought.
In views ranging from spectacular panoramas of vast geographical formations to intimate glimpses of small-scale features of the landscape, Arthus-Bertrand's photographs give a remarkable account of the Earth's surface. His probing lens portrays human settlements (from cities to desert oases), forests, grasslands, tundra, deserts, mountains, islands, coastlines, rivers and lakes in extraordinary compositions of light and form. Often taken from low altitudes, the images reveal people, animals and many other details that make a vista come alive.
The photographs are described and interpreted by a team of specialists who provide background information in many fields including history, sociology, environmental science and geography. Using the images as a window on the Earth, this fascinating book explores the state of our planer at the time of a new millennium. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.
What kind of Earth will future generations inherit? How can we preserve the heritage of natural abundance that we share with past generations? These are the questions that propelled Arthus-Bertrand on his mission. The impact of population growth and technological progress on the natural equilibrium of the planer has been dramatic, particularly over the past fifty years, and the world's landscapes have been transformed as a result. Appropriately, many of Arthus-Bertrand's photographs give evidence of the imprint of human civilization on the face of the land. They are thus a record both of what has survived the mushrooming world industrial economy and of what changes it has wrought.
In views ranging from spectacular panoramas of vast geographical formations to intimate glimpses of small-scale features of the landscape, Arthus-Bertrand's photographs give a remarkable account of the Earth's surface. His probing lens portrays human settlements (from cities to desert oases), forests, grasslands, tundra, deserts, mountains, islands, coastlines, rivers and lakes in extraordinary compositions of light and form. Often taken from low altitudes, the images reveal people, animals and many other details that make a vista come alive.
The photographs are described and interpreted by a team of specialists who provide background information in many fields including history, sociology, environmental science and geography. Using the images as a window on the Earth, this fascinating book explores the state of our planer at the time of a new millennium. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.
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