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Spineless Portraits of Marine Invertebrates, the Backbone of Life

Middleton Susan
Innbundet / 2014 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781419710070
Publisert
2014-10-21
Utgiver
Vendor
Abrams
Vekt
1960 gr
Høyde
312 mm
Bredde
267 mm
Dybde
31 mm
AldersnivĂĽ
G, 01
SprĂĽk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
256

Forfatter
Middleton Susan
Foreword by
Earle, Sylvia

Om bidragsyterne

Susan Middleton is a photographer, author and lecturer specialising in portraiture of rare and endangered animals, plants, sites and cultures. She was Chair of the Department of Photography at the California Academy of Sciences for 13 years, where she currently serves as Research associate. Her books include Evidence of Evolution, Archipelago, Remains of a Rainbow, Witness and Here Today and her photographs have been shown and published throughout the world.

Spineless Portraits of Marine Invertebrates, the Backbone of Life

Middleton Susan
Innbundet / 2014 / Engelsk
Middleton Susan
Innbundet / 2014 / Engelsk
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A gorgeous, light-drenched book that treats the senses. In one exquisitely-crafted portrait after another, accompanied by stirring prose, Middleton reminds us that we share the planet with equally fascinating neighbors, some of whom just happen to live beneath the waves.

Diane Ackerman, Author of The Human Age

“Susan Middleton, whose brilliant photography of wildlife is unexcelled, has brought to life and intimacy the small creatures who make up the foundation of animal life in marine waters.”

Edward O. Wilson, University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard University

“This is a wonderful tribute to the astonishingly diverse, beautiful, and urgently important creatures who truly rule the world.”

Sylvia A. Earle, Explorer in Residence at National Geographic, Founder of Mission Blue

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“Gorgeous portraits.”

Smithsonian.com

“The marine invertebrates in her photographs are such beautiful, ethereal, otherworldly creatures, they almost appear to float atop the pages.”

Entertainment Weekly

“Ravishing . . . rekindles a certain sense of wonder from childhood.”

New York Times

“Each image is rendered in exquisite detail. . . . As pure art it is a celebration for the eyes. As a tribute to nature’s inventiveness, it is an inspiration for the soul.”

Natural History Magazine

“Nothing short of spectacular.”

BookPage

“Middleton is a gifted photographer.”

Seattle Times

“There is nothing in this book that does not inspire awe and delight. Dive in!”

Wall Street Journal

In Spineless, acclaimed photographer Susan Middleton explores the mysterious and surprising world of marine invertebrates, creatures without backbones. Invertebrates represent more than 98 percent of the known animal species in the ocean and they are the foundation of all life on Earth. They are also astonishingly diverse in their shapes, patterns, textures and colours. Alternately colourful, quirky, spindly, spiky, sticky, stretchy, squishy, squirmy, prickly, bumpy, bubbly and fluttery, the invertebrates appear almost surreal in their abstract forms. Middleton’s book is the result of seven years of painstaking fieldwork across the Pacific Ocean, using photographic techniques that she developed to portray these often-fragile creatures. She also contributes short essays on the place of marine invertebrates in the tree of life; their many forms; and their lives in the ocean. There are also profiles of each species illustrated.
Les mer
A stunning new view of ocean life combining art and science.

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A gorgeous, light-drenched book that treats the senses. In one exquisitely-crafted portrait after another, accompanied by stirring prose, Middleton reminds us that we share the planet with equally fascinating neighbors, some of whom just happen to live beneath the waves.

Diane Ackerman, Author of The Human Age

“Susan Middleton, whose brilliant photography of wildlife is unexcelled, has brought to life and intimacy the small creatures who make up the foundation of animal life in marine waters.”

Edward O. Wilson, University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard University

“This is a wonderful tribute to the astonishingly diverse, beautiful, and urgently important creatures who truly rule the world.”

Sylvia A. Earle, Explorer in Residence at National Geographic, Founder of Mission Blue

Se alle

“Gorgeous portraits.”

Smithsonian.com

“The marine invertebrates in her photographs are such beautiful, ethereal, otherworldly creatures, they almost appear to float atop the pages.”

Entertainment Weekly

“Ravishing . . . rekindles a certain sense of wonder from childhood.”

New York Times

“Each image is rendered in exquisite detail. . . . As pure art it is a celebration for the eyes. As a tribute to nature’s inventiveness, it is an inspiration for the soul.”

Natural History Magazine

“Nothing short of spectacular.”

BookPage

“Middleton is a gifted photographer.”

Seattle Times

“There is nothing in this book that does not inspire awe and delight. Dive in!”

Wall Street Journal

In Spineless, acclaimed photographer Susan Middleton explores the mysterious and surprising world of marine invertebrates, creatures without backbones. Invertebrates represent more than 98 percent of the known animal species in the ocean and they are the foundation of all life on Earth. They are also astonishingly diverse in their shapes, patterns, textures and colours. Alternately colourful, quirky, spindly, spiky, sticky, stretchy, squishy, squirmy, prickly, bumpy, bubbly and fluttery, the invertebrates appear almost surreal in their abstract forms. Middleton’s book is the result of seven years of painstaking fieldwork across the Pacific Ocean, using photographic techniques that she developed to portray these often-fragile creatures. She also contributes short essays on the place of marine invertebrates in the tree of life; their many forms; and their lives in the ocean. There are also profiles of each species illustrated.
Les mer
A stunning new view of ocean life combining art and science.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781419710070
Publisert
2014-10-21
Utgiver
Vendor
Abrams
Vekt
1960 gr
Høyde
312 mm
Bredde
267 mm
Dybde
31 mm
AldersnivĂĽ
G, 01
SprĂĽk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
256

Forfatter
Middleton Susan
Foreword by
Earle, Sylvia

Om bidragsyterne

Susan Middleton is a photographer, author and lecturer specialising in portraiture of rare and endangered animals, plants, sites and cultures. She was Chair of the Department of Photography at the California Academy of Sciences for 13 years, where she currently serves as Research associate. Her books include Evidence of Evolution, Archipelago, Remains of a Rainbow, Witness and Here Today and her photographs have been shown and published throughout the world.

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