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Ragnar Axelsson is one of Iceland's best-known photojournalists. For over 15 years, he has been documenting people in the North Atlantic. In this book of nearly 200 photographs, Axelsson turns his lens on the Arctic, which is warming faster than any other region on earth. Axelsson's gorgeous photographs, mostly in black and white, show vast glaciers, sleds gliding across ice, and houses mostly buried in snow, but they also depict how the Inuit's way of life is transforming drastically as a result of climate change, prefiguring the enormous changes that are on their way to the rest of the world.
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Last Days of the Arctic
2012/1/3
形式:ハードカバー
This book is a document of the disappearing arctic life in Greenland. But not only. It is a photography book from one of the most talented young photographers of Iceland. Ragnar Axelsson, usually called RAX, works for the biggest newspaper of Iceland, the Morgunbladid. His pictures appear there day after day. That is what makes his living. But as a lot of photographers, he is not very happy with those pictures. So, he is exploring a less commercial kind of photography. His personal work was presented to the large public in his first book "Faces of the North", with pictures from Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland. A first publication, a master publication. A must have for a passionate of photography.
I his new book, Rax is exploring especially the north of Greenland, where most of the tourist never go. It is far, expensive, difficult of approach and also dangerous. The blizzard can arrive in a few minutes and then you are lost, if you don't know how to survive in those extreme conditions. The cold is THE big problem. When your whole body is freezing, the wind blowing, the snow cutting your face and hands like rasor blades, when your eyes are crying, try to make a picture, or just think of the effort it needs to take out the camera and shoot. Try to imagine how comfortable it is, in those conditions, to change the film in the camera, with no feeling in your frozen fingers. For having experienced these conditions myself, I know how difficult it is to make THE good picture then. And Rax does it, picture after picture. The entire book brings you there, in this gigantic and unspoiled place. He brings you close to the people, in the houses, with the seal and white bear hunters, there where the earth ends. And all the pictures are strong, telling a story. They are pictures of freedom but also pictures of a very hard life. It is a document, but it is also a masterpiece of photograpy. It is an enchanting jouney to a place where you will never go. In black and white or in colour Rax shows you the life like it is today, before the icecap is melting. A must have book, belonging definitely to the 20 best books of photography.
I his new book, Rax is exploring especially the north of Greenland, where most of the tourist never go. It is far, expensive, difficult of approach and also dangerous. The blizzard can arrive in a few minutes and then you are lost, if you don't know how to survive in those extreme conditions. The cold is THE big problem. When your whole body is freezing, the wind blowing, the snow cutting your face and hands like rasor blades, when your eyes are crying, try to make a picture, or just think of the effort it needs to take out the camera and shoot. Try to imagine how comfortable it is, in those conditions, to change the film in the camera, with no feeling in your frozen fingers. For having experienced these conditions myself, I know how difficult it is to make THE good picture then. And Rax does it, picture after picture. The entire book brings you there, in this gigantic and unspoiled place. He brings you close to the people, in the houses, with the seal and white bear hunters, there where the earth ends. And all the pictures are strong, telling a story. They are pictures of freedom but also pictures of a very hard life. It is a document, but it is also a masterpiece of photograpy. It is an enchanting jouney to a place where you will never go. In black and white or in colour Rax shows you the life like it is today, before the icecap is melting. A must have book, belonging definitely to the 20 best books of photography.
Last Days of the Arctic - haunting and beautiful
2011/12/13
形式:ハードカバー
As well as being an amazing photographer, Rax (Ragnar Axelsson) is an adventurer and his work shows it. He goes places and endures hardships that allow you to experience how Arctic cultures really live, what they suffer through and how they survive in such a seemingly bleak and desolate environment. He pulls no punches in his unvarnished depiction of Arctic life (skinned seals and whales, dead polar bears). He takes you inside the homes and daily lives of the Inuit and with him on Narwhale hunts. He flies his own plane and once found himself adrift on ice in his effort to be in the midst of the action. To understand what to expect in the pages of "Last Days of the Arctic" you might think of some of the great war photographers that risk it all to get close to the action (Capa, Nachtwey, Hicks) or the great essayists that break through stereotypical depictions of their subjects (Koudelka and Gypsies, Mary Ellen Mark and Indian prostitutes, Bill Allard and the American cowboy). This is what great photography is all about - you not only have the benefit of a great artistic vision, you get close to a unique and fading way of life in a way that only someone as committed as Rax can offer.
Rax also excels as both a landscape photographer and a humanist photographer; as a color and b&w photographer. There are stunning examples of all in this book.
Anyone that appreciates world-class photography and has a sense of adventure and wonder about what goes on in the furthest corners of the world should own this book before the first edition is gone. You won't regret it.
John Langmore
Austin, Texas
Rax also excels as both a landscape photographer and a humanist photographer; as a color and b&w photographer. There are stunning examples of all in this book.
Anyone that appreciates world-class photography and has a sense of adventure and wonder about what goes on in the furthest corners of the world should own this book before the first edition is gone. You won't regret it.
John Langmore
Austin, Texas
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