Vetur (Hardcover)

Langue : anglais

Edité par Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2025

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Hardcover. 'Vetur' means 'winter' in Icelandic - a season during which weather and light can change in the blink of an eye, reshaping vast open spaces into visions of fleeting magic or quiet desolation. Lefvre's photographs embrace this duality. In often desert-like landscapes where the road becomes the thread of life, he traces a path through snowbound expanses and glacial silence, capturing moments of both transcendence and austerity. Winters in Iceland can be both mercilessly cold and incredibly beautiful. The rapidly changing weather and light conditions of the winter months transform this quiet, remote country into a true natural spectacle. In February 2024, Lefevre explored Iceland for the first time. The photographer artfully used the unique Icelandic light, with its high contrasts and the magical atmosphere of the isolated, snow-covered environment, to create a sensitive reality in his images. The landscapes are almost desert-like, with roads as the only lifeline. The photographs span a wide range of iconic and lesser-known Icelandic locations - from the crater lake Kerio and the volcanic Katla region to the dramatic Dettifoss waterfall and the mist-covered peninsulas of Snaefellsnes and Reykjanes. Yet, Lefevre avoids postcard realism. His Iceland is not about spectacle, but about essence. Each image pares the landscape down to its qui et core: a horizon blurred by fog, a single dark stone punctuating a white field, or a strip of road vanishing into light. Vetur. Frozen Landscapes of Iceland is more than a simple travel album or landscape book - the images unfold into a poetic visual story in which each photograph could stand on its own as a striking painting. Drawing inspiration from the aesthetics of Pictorialism, the photographs possess a painterly softness, balancing light and tone with minimalist precision. Their restrained palette and open compositions evoke a contemplative state - more like meditations than documentation. The result is a book that invites slowness, reflecting interior landscapes as much as the Icelandic terrain: a search for stillness, simplicity, and connection in a fragmented world. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Titre
Vetur (Hardcover)
Auteur
Patrick Lefevre
Éditeur
Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg
Année de publication
2025
État de l'article
new
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
3969001900
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9783969001905

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