Nick Brandt: Inherit the Dust - Hardcover

Nick Brandt

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0692520546 ISBN 13: 9780692520543

Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers, 2016

Synopsis

Three years after the conclusion of his trilogy, On This Earth, A Shadow Falls Across the Ravaged Land, Nick Brandt returns to East Africa to photograph the escalating changes to the continent's natural world. In a series of epic panoramas, Brandt records the impact of man in places where animals used to roam, but no longer do. In each location, Brandt erects a life size panel of one of his animal portrait photographs, setting the panels within a world of explosive urban development, factories, wasteland and quarries.,

The people within the photographs are oblivious to the presence of the panels and the animals featured in them, who are now no more than ghosts in the landscape. Some of the animals in the panels appear to be looking out at these destroyed landscapes with sadness, as if lamenting the loss of the world they once inhabited. By the end, we see that it is not just the animals who are the victims in this out of control world, but also the humans.,

Inherit the Dust also includes plates of the original portraits of the animals that are featured in the life-size panels, the unique emotional animal portraiture for which Brandt is recognized. There are also two essays by the artist: a text about the crisis facing the conservation of the natural world in East Africa, and behind-the-scenes descriptions of Brandt's elaborate production process, with accompanying documentary photographs.

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Review:

Nick Brandt s ravishing portraits of African animals are like premonitory memorials, taken to aid the cause of staving off extinction. In Inherit the Dust, his astonishing panoramas of those portraits - installed as life-size panels in industrial and urban wastelands that have trampled the animals habitats - are a jolting combination of beauty, decay, and admonishment.
The result is an eloquent and complex J accuse , for the people are as victimized by development as the animals are.
The breadth, detail, and incongruity of Brandt s panoramas suggest a collision between Bruegel and an apocalypse in waiting. --Vicki Goldberg, Art Critic, Author

The wasted lands in Inherit The Dust were once golden savannah, sprinkled with acacia trees, where elephants, big cats and rhinos roamed. These now dystopian landscapes - as Nick Brandt s unvarnished, harrowing but stunning work reveals - brings us face to face with a crisis, both social and environmental, demanding the renewal of humanity itself. --Kathryn Bigelow, Film Director, The Hurt Locker

The images in Inherit The Dust are heart-wrenching and important. This tough new series is a call to action if it is not too late and pulls no punches in confronting us with the devastation of their habitat. --Philippe Garner, Co-Chairman, Christies

About the Author:

Nick Brandt (born 1964) was born in Britain and is currently based in Southern California. Brandt cofounded Big Life Foundation in 2010, which helps protect the endangered wildlife inhabiting a large area of East Africa.

About this edition

• Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0692520546
• ISBN 13: 9780692520543
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128