Edited with text by Tyrone Martinsson, Gunilla Knape, Hans Hedberg. Text by Sophie Calle, Marie Deplechin, Stevie Bezencenet, Rebecca Solnit, et al.
In September 2011 a group of scientists, artists and writers embarked on an expedition to North-West Svalbard, the northern extremity of Norway. Travelling on the M/S Stockholm, each of them recorded the event from their own professional and personal perspective. The sites on the route map of the journey facing the northern shores of the Polar Sea all have a story to tell, natural or cultural. The book is a narrative of the places visited by the expedition with the many different approaches shaping the views of the land encountered. The poetics of artists and photographers meeting the environmentalist writers and researchers of science and history tells the story of an expedition following its historic predecessors. The history of photography and earlier travel accounts as well as burning contemporary issues guided the journey into the Arctic.
Featured images are reproduced from Expedition Svalbard.
FORMAT: Hbk, 11.5 x 10.25 in. / 264 pgs / 100 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $58.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $77.5 ISBN: 9783869305905 PUBLISHER: Steidl AVAILABLE: 9/29/2015 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: NA ONLY
Expedition Svalbard Lost Views on the Shorelines of Economy
Published by Steidl. Edited with text by Tyrone Martinsson, Gunilla Knape, Hans Hedberg. Text by Sophie Calle, Marie Deplechin, Stevie Bezencenet, Rebecca Solnit, et al.
In September 2011 a group of scientists, artists and writers embarked on an expedition to North-West Svalbard, the northern extremity of Norway. Travelling on the M/S Stockholm, each of them recorded the event from their own professional and personal perspective. The sites on the route map of the journey facing the northern shores of the Polar Sea all have a story to tell, natural or cultural. The book is a narrative of the places visited by the expedition with the many different approaches shaping the views of the land encountered. The poetics of artists and photographers meeting the environmentalist writers and researchers of science and history tells the story of an expedition following its historic predecessors. The history of photography and earlier travel accounts as well as burning contemporary issues guided the journey into the Arctic.
