Water Culture - Hardcover

Francesca Sorrenti

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1904563090 ISBN 13: 9781904563099

Publisher: Trolley Books, 2003

Synopsis

In Water Culture, Francesca Sorrenti and Marisha Shibuya of the SKe GROUP project, in partnership with Ocean Futures Society's Jean-Michel Cousteau, have collected a kaleidoscope of the elemental qualities of water and interviews with prominent world personalities on the problems facing our water supply. The series of photographs they have compiled are breathtaking in its range of expressionism. They chose the works of Andreas Gursky, Richard Misrach, Mario Sorrenti, Nan Goldin, Mario Testino, and Steve McCurry, among others, to represent this multi-faceted world of water. Against these extraordinary images are set the records of the follies of mankind, the greed, despair and ignorance of the source of life. Again and again, it will leave a bewildered albatross or a seal coated in oil by another Amoco Cadiz that has spilt 250,000 tons of human degradation into the oceans. This is expressed with compelling facts and interviews throughout the book that bring awareness to the threat that our most important element faces today. Water Culture, now in reprint after just one year, is dedicated to The International Year of Freshwater. Jean-Michel Cousteau promoted the book at the World Water Forum in Kyoto, Japan, and continues at other functions throughout the next several years. A portion of the sales benefits the Ocean Futures Society.

About this title

Synopsis:

In "Water Culture", Francesca Sorrenti, in collaboration with Ocean Futures Society's Jean-Michel Cousteau, has collected a kaleidoscope of the elemental qualities of water in a series of photographs. They chose the works of Mario Sorrenti, Nan Goldin, Fabien Baron, Cedric Bouchet, Andrew Bettles and Boris Michailov, among others, to represent this world. Against these images are set the records of the follies of mankind, the greed and despair and ignorance of the source of life that will again leave a bewildered albatross or a seal coated in oil by another Amoco Cadiz that has spilt 250,000 tons of human degradation into the oceans.

About this edition

• Publisher: Trolley Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1904563090
• ISBN 13: 9781904563099
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216
• Editor: Francesca Sorrenti, Marisha Shibuya