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The Oldest Living Things in the World

作者: Rachel 著 , Carl 著 , Hans Ulrich Obrist 著

出版社: Univ of Chicago Pr

出版时间: 2014-04

ISBN: 9780226057507

定价: 616.90

装帧: 精装

开本: 其他

纸张: 其他

页数: 17页

正文语种: 英语

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>艺术

The Oldest Living Things in the World is an epic journey through time and space. Over the past decade， artist Rachel Sussman has researched， worked with biologists， and traveled the world from Antarctica to the Mojave Desert in order to photograph continuously living organisms that are at least 2，000 years old. The result is a stunning and unique visual collection of species unlike anything that has been created in the arts or sciences before.

   Sussmans work is both timeless and timely， and the book spans disciplines， continents， and millennia. Underlying the work is an innate environmentalism driven by Sussmans relentless curiosity. She begins at ?year zero， and looks back from there， photographing the past in the present.  The ancient subjects live on every continent and range from Greenlandic lichens that grow only one centimeter per century， to unique desert shrubs in Africa and South America， a predatory fungus in Oregon， Caribbean brain coral， and an 80，000-year-old colony of aspen in Utah. She journeyed to Antarctica to photograph 5，500-year-old moss; Australia for stromatolites， which are organisms tied to the oxygenation of the planet and the beginnings of life on Earth; and Tasmania to capture a 43，600-year-old self-propagating shrub thats the last of its kind. These portraits reveal the living history of our planet?and what we stand to lose in the future. These ancient survivors have weathered millennia in some of the worlds most extreme environments， yet climate change and human interaction have put many of the species presented here in danger. Two of her subjects have already met with untimely deaths.

   Alongside the photographs， Sussman combines tales of her global adventures tracking down these subjects with insight from the scientists who are studying them and their environments. The result is an original index of millennia-old organisms that provides a record and celebration of the past， a call to action in the present， and a barometer of our future. Rachel Sussman is a contemporary artist based in Brooklyn. Her photographs and writing have been featured in such places as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, and NPR’s Picture Show. A trained member of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps, Sussman has spoken on her work at TED and the Long Now Foundation. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in the United States and Europe. Preface: The World as We Know It
Art Essay: The Future Is Invented with Fragments from the Past - Hans Ulrich Obrist
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Science Essay: How Lives Become Long - Carl Zimmer
Infographic 1: OLTW World Map
North America
1                      Giant Sequoia
2                      Bristlecone Pine
3                      Creosote Bush
4                      Mojave Yucca
5                      Honey Mushroom
6                      Box Huckleberry
7                      Palmer’s Oak
8                      Pando
9                      The Senator
10                    Map Lichens
Infographic 2: Linnean Taxonomy
South America
11                    Llareta (or Yareta)
12                    Alerce
13                    Brain Coral
Europe
14                    Fortingall Yew
15                    Chestnut of 100 Horses
16                    Posidonia Sea Grass
17                    Olive
18                    Spruce
Infographic 3: Deep Timeline
Asia
19                    Jomon Sugi
20                    Sri Maha Bodhi
21                    Siberian Actinobacteria
Africa
22                    Baobab
23                    Underground Forests
24                    Welwitschia

Australia
25                    Antarctic Beech
26                    Tasmanian Lomatia
27                    Huon Pine
28                    Eucalyptus: NSW and WA
29                    Stromatolites
Antarctica
30                    Antarctic Moss
Infographic 4: Growth Strategy
Roads Not (Yet) Taken
Researchers, Guides, Guests, and “A Little Way Through”
Glossary
Chronological Index
Exosystem Index
内容简介:
The Oldest Living Things in the World is an epic journey through time and space. Over the past decade， artist Rachel Sussman has researched， worked with biologists， and traveled the world from Antarctica to the Mojave Desert in order to photograph continuously living organisms that are at least 2，000 years old. The result is a stunning and unique visual collection of species unlike anything that has been created in the arts or sciences before.

   Sussmans work is both timeless and timely， and the book spans disciplines， continents， and millennia. Underlying the work is an innate environmentalism driven by Sussmans relentless curiosity. She begins at ?year zero， and looks back from there， photographing the past in the present.  The ancient subjects live on every continent and range from Greenlandic lichens that grow only one centimeter per century， to unique desert shrubs in Africa and South America， a predatory fungus in Oregon， Caribbean brain coral， and an 80，000-year-old colony of aspen in Utah. She journeyed to Antarctica to photograph 5，500-year-old moss; Australia for stromatolites， which are organisms tied to the oxygenation of the planet and the beginnings of life on Earth; and Tasmania to capture a 43，600-year-old self-propagating shrub thats the last of its kind. These portraits reveal the living history of our planet?and what we stand to lose in the future. These ancient survivors have weathered millennia in some of the worlds most extreme environments， yet climate change and human interaction have put many of the species presented here in danger. Two of her subjects have already met with untimely deaths.

   Alongside the photographs， Sussman combines tales of her global adventures tracking down these subjects with insight from the scientists who are studying them and their environments. The result is an original index of millennia-old organisms that provides a record and celebration of the past， a call to action in the present， and a barometer of our future.
作者简介:
Rachel Sussman is a contemporary artist based in Brooklyn. Her photographs and writing have been featured in such places as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, and NPR’s Picture Show. A trained member of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps, Sussman has spoken on her work at TED and the Long Now Foundation. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in the United States and Europe.
目录:
Preface: The World as We Know It
Art Essay: The Future Is Invented with Fragments from the Past - Hans Ulrich Obrist
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Science Essay: How Lives Become Long - Carl Zimmer
Infographic 1: OLTW World Map
North America
1                      Giant Sequoia
2                      Bristlecone Pine
3                      Creosote Bush
4                      Mojave Yucca
5                      Honey Mushroom
6                      Box Huckleberry
7                      Palmer’s Oak
8                      Pando
9                      The Senator
10                    Map Lichens
Infographic 2: Linnean Taxonomy
South America
11                    Llareta (or Yareta)
12                    Alerce
13                    Brain Coral
Europe
14                    Fortingall Yew
15                    Chestnut of 100 Horses
16                    Posidonia Sea Grass
17                    Olive
18                    Spruce
Infographic 3: Deep Timeline
Asia
19                    Jomon Sugi
20                    Sri Maha Bodhi
21                    Siberian Actinobacteria
Africa
22                    Baobab
23                    Underground Forests
24                    Welwitschia

Australia
25                    Antarctic Beech
26                    Tasmanian Lomatia
27                    Huon Pine
28                    Eucalyptus: NSW and WA
29                    Stromatolites
Antarctica
30                    Antarctic Moss
Infographic 4: Growth Strategy
Roads Not (Yet) Taken
Researchers, Guides, Guests, and “A Little Way Through”
Glossary
Chronological Index
Exosystem Index

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