First Steps: Conserving Our Environment - Hardcover

Joe Zammit-Lucia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0979507103 ISBN 13: 9780979507106

Publisher: Matte Press, 2008

Synopsis

Making a quiet and cautiously hopeful statement about environmental protection, this spellbinding collection of photographs does not bombard readers with visual imagery or urgent calls for alarm. Instead it celebrates the ability of nature?all by itself?to enthrall and engage human sympathies. The photographs include many views of wildlife and wilderness, as well as scenes of human activity, and simple pieces of short commentary complement the images. A remarkable black-and-white portrait of a polar bear against a dark background is accompanied by a few sober sentences about its proposed listing as a threatened species, and a great picture of New York City and is used to paise the efficiency of high density: Manhattan uses less energy per capita than anywhere else in the United States. A resource section listing websites for organizations, green living, and environmental news and opinion is also included.

About this title

About the Author

Joe Zammit-Lucia is a conservationist and an award-winning photographer whose work has been featured in fine-art photography magazines and is included in The World's Greatest Black and White Photography. Organisations sponsoring his installations of words and images have included the United Nations; the National Museum of Natural History, Paris; and Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables, Florida. He donates all profits from his work, including proceeds from this book, to environmental causes. He lives in Sag Harbor, New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Matte Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0979507103
• ISBN 13: 9780979507106
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 112