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Summary: The Beauty of Biodiversity
Review: A lovely yet disturbing record of endangered wildlife and habitats from Madagascar to Hawai'i. DePonte opted to shoot in black and white to starkly depict the fragility of these lands, toning the prints cappuccino to further suggest these worlds are disappearing into memory. Her pictures are accompanied by haunting poetic narratives by Berry, who joined DePonte on the trip.
There are images of great beauty - a tiny lemur, head in sharp focus, body blurred, depicting nature's fierce will to survive. A young woman floating in water through a track of sunlight, the reflection of a cottony cloud wafting towards her. But there are also photos that echo the ecological alarms of the text, such as a rancher marching skinny-haunched cattle across a burned-out Amazon landscape. Then there's DePonte's stylistic innovation - nudes who "are posed to blend into environment to show how small and vulnerable we are compared to Mother Nature, who will lash back at us." Women crouch in submission or emerge from the rocks. A male nude grasps a huge tree like a newborn clinging to its mother, to the words "Embrace this miracle, grow strong within earth." Image and verse suggest we are one with nature and in losing nature we destroy ourselves.
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Summary: Gaia. Journey into Vanishing Worlds
Review: Although unpaginated, the book contains over 100 beautiful photographs from Brazil, Hawaii, and Madagascar.Catches the feeling for the "primitive" peoples still existant in the world.
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Summary: Gaia. Journey into Vanishing Worlds
Review: Although unpaginated, the book contains over 100 beautiful photographs from Brazil, Hawaii, and Madagascar. Catches the feeling for the "primitive" peoples still existant in the world.
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Summary: Breathtaking
Review: One of the most insightful, beautiful books I have ever seen. The photographs are haunting and captivating at the same time. This is a wonderful gift to help educate on the demise of the rainforest. Looking through this book, one journeys to places where scientist warn that civilized man may first comprehend the most tragic loss of living creatures since the demise of the dinosaurs. Images and verse strengthen our connection to Gaia, Earth's natural mantle, while the fate of that living fabric remains uncertain. Global Art In Action, Inc. published this book to increase public-awareness of the current ecological crisis, to help re-establish human ties to the Earth, and to raise funds needed for Conservation International's "Campaign to save the Hotspots". I'm glad that I bought this book and highly recommend it.
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Summary: An incredable journey leading us into the new millenium...
Review: The publisher, Paige DePonte, Pres. G.A.I.A. Photopaige @aol.com , October 3, 1999Saving the Earth's rain forest is one click away!Journey Into Vanishing Worlds takes us to the remote tropical rain forest of Madagascar, Brazil, South Africa, Peru, Hawaii and Costa Rica with Fashion photographer Paige DePonte and writer Mark Berry. Recreating their travels, the book blends scattered original poetry with 144 toned-black and white photographs of lush natural landscapes, endemic species of animals and plants, and native peoples. Haunting sometimes raw, imagery offers a compelling yet unsentimental portrait of these rare and beautiful ecosystems, and the environmental degradation brought about by human activity. In this fresh unconventional view of nature, the human form is shown as an integral part of the landscape, symbolizing our connection to the Earth and to the more instinctual and spiritual aspects of life. Biologist, Russell Mittermeier, writes "photographer and poet unite to transport the reader to exotic worlds within our own that are fast disappearing from the global landscape. Regrettably , with these places also disappears the rich diversity of life that supports the human species and nurtures our spirit. Looking through this book, one journeys to places where scientist warn that civilized man may first comprehend the most tragic loss of living creatures since the demise of the dinosaurs. Images and verse strengthen our connection to Gaia, Earth's natural mantle, while the fate of that living fabric remains uncertain". Global Art In Action, Inc. G.A.I.A. is publishing this book to increase public-awareness of the current ecological crisis, to help re-establish human ties to the Earth, and to raise funds needed for Conservation International's "Campaign to save the Hotspots". Each book you purchase brings us closer to preserving our Earth and all her wonders.
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