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Hardcover. Etat : As New. Etat de la jaquette : As New. Excellent, near new copy of a massive volume of photography, essays and poetry illuminating the human ephoc. In amazing photographs that are both stunning and disconcerting, Burtynsky, Baichwal, and de Pencier document species extinction (the burning of elephant tusks to disrupt the illegal trade of ivory), technofossils (swathes of discarded plastic forming geological layers), and terraforming (mines and industrial agriculture). The book also features a range of essays by artists, curators, and scientists, some part of an international group of scientists who have proposed that the Earth is now entering a new era of geological time where human activity is the driving force behind environmental and geological change — i.e. the Anthropocene. Thus the book brings contemporary art into conversation with environmental science and anthropology on a topic that urgently affects all of us. Anthropocene was published to coincide with a major international exhibition that opened simultaneously in September 2018 at the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada and the release of a film on the same topic by Baichwal and de Pencier.…

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, first printing in Fine++ condition. Hardcover. Unread, 178 pages. Edited by Ron Kurtz. The most comprehensive monograph on this underappreciated body of work from Abbot who is best known for her classic book of photographs "Changing New York." Features essays by Julia Van Haaften and John Durant. Includes 93 tritone illustrations. A crisp copy in cloth boards with black and white image inset into the front cover. No dust jacket as issued. A beautifully printed book that is surprisingly uncommon despite it's recent vintage. …