David Maisel’s work spans many different project over many years. One of his interests is in documenting through aerial photographs the impact that Man has on the landscape. The image above is from “The Mining Project” where he explores the effect of mining in “undoing of the landscape, in terms of both its formal beauty [...]
Archive of posts tagged man and nature
Stone Nudes by Dean Fidelman
Dean Fidelman has generated a series of mesmerizing images for his project Stone Nudes. Fidelman is a rock climber and he describes his series as “A photographic project that captures the essence of the climbing spirit”. But to me these images speak more broadly than just telling a story about climbing. To my eyes these [...]
Genesis: A Masterwork by Sebastião Salgado
Sebastião Salgado is a giant in the world of documentary photography. His projects are expansive and ambitious. His documentation of the human aspects of Africa was completed before Africa became fashionable. “Workers” – a seven year project – documented laborers in 26 countries. “Migrations” was a 6 year project documenting refugees and other displaced people. [...]
Does Activism Work – “Freedom” – a Novel by Jonathan Frantzen
It is encouraging to note that mainstream literature that has an environmental component is on the rise. ‘Freedom’ by Jonathan Frantzen has received widespread acclaim. ‘Freedom’ is not a novel about the environment. However, Frantzen does nave an interest in birds and conservation and his main character is a committed environmental activist who works for [...]
Henri Rousseau for The Year of the Tiger
Henri Rousseau’s naif art paintings were mercilessly criticized during his lifetime. He struggled, and failed, to achieve acceptance by the art establishment. Within a couple of decades of this condemnation, his art was hanging in the world’s leading museums. So much for the establishment. Rousseau was fascinated by jungles and the environment they produce. His [...]
What is Nature – well, that depends. The work of Kyle Zeto
What’s with the picture of a man with a forest for a head? This is the work of Kyle Zeto, a young artist just completing his art school studies. The aim of his work is to cast “Nature” in a different light, to confuse us as to how we should and can think about “Nature”. [...]
Strength in Delicacy – the works of Christiane Loehr
I recently came across the works of Christiane Loehr at an exhibit supposedly focused on renewable energy held at MACRO – a museum of contemporary art in Rome. Loehr is a German artist that constructs complex and beautiful structures using natural materials – often seeds or flowers. These structures are generally small – the one [...]
BP: Belching Petroleum – The Art Of The Oil Spill
It is not clear which is the biggest scandal. BP pumping maybe a million gallons of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico (after all, industrial mishaps do happen); or the Obama Administration’s continued support for opening up more and more of America’s shores to oil drilling (when, after all, industrial mishaps do happen [...]
