- Hardcover: 96 pages
- Publisher: Aperture; illustrated edition edition (September 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0893817309
- ISBN-13: 978-0893817305
- Product Dimensions: 28.8 x 26.6 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 971 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Product Details |
Product Description
Review
"Opening this book, I seemed to step through the door of a spacecraft onto the surface of a distant, ruined planet. Its landscape was haunted with the bizarre forms and inexplicable structures of an alien civilization-their meanings lost, their uses inscrutable.
Page after page I discovered puzzling and unaccountable vistas that should have felt familiar but didn't. Whether Jan Staller's camera has transformed these landscapes or transformed the viewer I'm not certain. But I do know that he gives us a chance to travel to the outskirts of our own world...as aliens." --Terry Gilliam, Filmmaker
"Bold and mysterious, [Staller's photographs] capture silent, poetic landscapes." --The New York Times
Page after page I discovered puzzling and unaccountable vistas that should have felt familiar but didn't. Whether Jan Staller's camera has transformed these landscapes or transformed the viewer I'm not certain. But I do know that he gives us a chance to travel to the outskirts of our own world...as aliens." --Terry Gilliam, Filmmaker
"Bold and mysterious, [Staller's photographs] capture silent, poetic landscapes." --The New York Times
Product Description
On Planet Earth: Travels in an Unfamiliar Land collects Jan Staller's strangely seductive photographs from locations across the United States and around the world.-from abandoned factories to military test sites, from high-tech water-purification plants to heavy machinery that looks like it fell from outer space. Staller's square-format and panoramic photographs reveal bizarre and forgotten constructions of industrial society, set against a symphony of color and light.
A sense of mystery pervades Staller's images: ordinary building devices and machine parts take on the aura of Surrealist sculptures, while common construction sites echo the sacred grounds of ancient civilizations. Using long exposures and a combination of light sources-often photographing at dawn or dusk-Staller produces photographs that are breathtakingly rich in color and intensity.
Complementing the images in On Planet Earth is a narrative by Luc Sante, who shares Staller's fascination with urban and industrial wastelands, the history they contain, and the mysteries they conceal. Together, Staller's photographs and Sante's text offer a stimulating, Technicolor tour of the unknown at the edge of the contemporary landscape.
A sense of mystery pervades Staller's images: ordinary building devices and machine parts take on the aura of Surrealist sculptures, while common construction sites echo the sacred grounds of ancient civilizations. Using long exposures and a combination of light sources-often photographing at dawn or dusk-Staller produces photographs that are breathtakingly rich in color and intensity.
Complementing the images in On Planet Earth is a narrative by Luc Sante, who shares Staller's fascination with urban and industrial wastelands, the history they contain, and the mysteries they conceal. Together, Staller's photographs and Sante's text offer a stimulating, Technicolor tour of the unknown at the edge of the contemporary landscape.
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most helpful customer reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
:),
By A Customer
This review is from: On Planet Earth: Travels in an Unfamiliar Land (Hardcover)
Take the desolate sound of Tool and the bilateral lyrics of Pink floyd and combine it with the eeriness of the X-Files into photographs, and Staller's book is accomplished. The pictures leave you wondering "What the hell?" as they evoke the wonderment and slight fear you haven't felt since you were a child.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta) Amazon.com:
5.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review) 7 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
:),
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: On Planet Earth: Travels in an Unfamiliar Land (Hardcover)
Take the desolate sound of Tool and the bilateral lyrics of Pink floyd and combine it with the eeriness of the X-Files into photographs, and Staller's book is accomplished. The pictures leave you wondering "What the hell?" as they evoke the wonderment and slight fear you haven't felt since you were a child.
|
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
- Books > Arts & Photography > History & Criticism > Criticism
- Books > Arts & Photography > Other Media > Conceptual
- Books > Arts & Photography > Photography > Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions
- Books > Arts & Photography > Photography > Nature & Wildlife
- Books > Arts & Photography > Photography > Photo Essays
- Books > Outdoors & Nature > Conservation > Environmentalism
- Books > Reference > Writing > Travel
- Books > Travel > Reference & Tips > Travel Writing
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
