Endangered

by Erik Hijweege

Photographs: Erik Hijweege

Publisher: Ella Editions

88 pages

Year: 2014

ISBN: 9789082280418

Comments: 33 x 24 cm, English

By capturing threatened animal species in ice, photographer Erik Hijweege creates confusion. The images set his audience thinking. Is this animal encased in ice the last of its kind, or is it simply preserved, left in stasis and immortalised until it can perhaps be resurrected? Hijweege, moreover, applies an archaic, rarely used technique to produce his images: the wet collodion process dating from 1851. The depictions of species like the polar bear, bison, gorilla and elephant seem like artefacts from another time – or our future. In this way, we become witnesses to a project that has far-reaching implications for our ways of thinking about extinction, preservation and conservation.

more books tagged »animals« | >> see all

• 

  Corviale
  by Otto Hainzl
  Euro 39.90

• 

  Tokyo Parrots (signed)
  by Yoshinori Mizutani
  sold out

• 

  Pecorino und die Kunst des Pilgerns (last copies)
  by Toni Anzenberger & Claudio Honsal
  sold out

• 

  Ashes and Snow book n° 8
  by Gregory Colbert
  sold out

• 

  We are dogs!
  by Jaka Babnik
  sold out

• 

  Horse
  by Heleen Peeters
  Euro 49

more books tagged »Netherlands« | >> see all

• 

  Les Copains
  by Johan van der Keuken
  sold out

• 

  Hariban Award 2014 Catalogue - (Sequester)
  by Awoiska Van Der Molen
  sold out

• 

  Apartheid & After
  by Huis Marseille
  sold out

• 

  It takes my mind off things (signed)
  by Robin Butter
  sold out

• 

  Offstage (signed - review copy)
  by Dana Lixenberg
  sold out

• 

  De Burgemeester - The Mayor A-Z the Netherlands (signed - last...
  by Dana Lixenberg
  Euro 65

Random selection from the Virtual bookshelf josefchladek.com

• 
  Richard Huelsenbeck - Dada Almanach
  
• 
  Lucien Clergue - Toros muertos
  
• 
  Julius Wisotzki - Poster Art in ...
  
• 
  Kazuo Kitai - Sanrizuka 1969-197...