Becker, Olaf Otto, 1959- photographer.

Olaf Otto Becker, above zero / essays by/Texte von Freddy Langer and/und Konrad Steffen.

Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, ©2009.

175 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 x 35 cm

"Second only to Antarctica, Greenland has the most expansive continental ice sheet in the world. Becker's spectacular portraits of this region are taken with a cumbersome and heavy large-format camera during physically strenuous, sometimes life-threatening tours among glacial crevasses and snowmelt flows. His photographic studies reveal the overwhelming beauty of this ice-covered landscape while at the same time documenting the existential threat to it, for even here, in this completely uninhabited region, human influences have fatal consequences: dust and soot in the air form black, crusty deposits that, in conjunction with global warming, accelerate the melting of the ice sheets - with no doubt unavoidable catastrophic results."--BOOK JACKET.

9783775724371 (hardcover)
3775724370

Becker, Olaf Otto, 1959-
Becker, Olaf Otto.
Ice Greenland Pictorial works.
Landscape photography.
Glace Groenland Ouvrages illustrés.
Photographie de paysages.
Ice
Inlandeis
Landschaftsfotografie
Greenland Pictorial works.
Greenland.
Grönland

Bildband.
Illustrated works

Langer, Freddy, 1957- writer of supplementary textual content.
Steffen, Konrad, writer of supplementary textual content.

Above zero
Above zero : Greenland 2007-2008

Localisation: Bibliothèque main m 270168
Cote: BIB 202851
Statut: Disponible