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 »Netherlands« | >> see all

• 

  I am Waldviertel (signed)
  by Carla Kogelman
  Euro 54

• 

  Flaming Grace (signed)
  by Vivian Keulards
  Euro 40

• 

  It takes my mind off things (signed - last copies)
  by Robin Butter
  Euro 85

• 

  Apartheid & After
  by Huis Marseille
  sold out

• 

  Man Next Door (signed - last copy)
  by Rob Hornstra
  sold out

• 

  Penumbrae
  by Juul Kraijer
  Euro 33

more books tagged »animals« | >> see all

• 

  Pecorino in Rimini (signed)
  by Toni Anzenberger
  Euro 95

• 

  Animal Farm
  by Daniel Naude
  Euro 44

• 

  The House Project (signed - last copy)
  by Roger Ballen
  Euro 165

• 

  Pecorino Calendar 2014
  by Toni Anzenberger
  sold out

• 

  Misao The Big Mama And Fukumaru The Cat
  by Miyoko Ihara
  sold out

• 

  Amelia und die Tiere
  by Robin Schwartz
  sold out

Random selection from the Virtual bookshelf josefchladek.com

• 
  Daniel Masclet - NUS - La Beauté...
  
• 
  Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel - E...
  
• 
  Nobuyoshi Araki - Xerox Photoboo...
  
• 
  Jan Tschichold - Typographische ...