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Olaf Otto Becker

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Olaf Otto Becker: Siberian Summer

HATJE CANTZ
Edited by Nadine Barth.

Becker’s latest portrayal of the transformations wrought by climate change upon landscape comes with a limited-edition print

Clth, 13.5 x 10.75 in. / 176 pgs / 100 color. | 5/10/2022 | In stock
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Olaf Otto Becker: Siberian Summer

HATJE CANTZ
Edited by Nadine Barth.

Revelatory images of Siberia's rapidly transforming landscapes in the permafrost summer

Clth, 13.5 x 10.75 in. / 192 pgs / 100 color. | 1/5/2021 | In stock
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Olaf Otto Becker: Ilulissat

HATJE CANTZ

Hbk, 11 x 8.75 in. / 96 pgs / 48 color. | 2/27/2018 | In stock
$55.00


Olaf Otto Becker: Under the Nordic Light

HATJE CANTZ
Text by Petra Giloy-Hirtz.

Clth, 13.5 x 10.5 in. / 160 pgs / 93 color. | 1/31/2012 | Out of stock
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Olaf Otto Becker: Broken Line

HATJE CANTZ
Text by Gerry Badger, Christoph Schaden.

Clothbound, 13.5 x 11 in. / 144 pgs / 70 color. | 10/1/2007 | Out of stock
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Olaf Otto Becker: Siberian SummerOlaf Otto Becker: Siberian Summer

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Edited by Nadine Barth.

German photographer Olaf Otto Becker (born 1959) has long been acclaimed for his photo-documentations of the effects of climate change on landscape, as well as the general influence of human behavior on nature. He first came to public attention with his captivating pictures of icebergs. Now, Becker has turned to the permafrost zone and its gradual retreat northward. Here he portrays earth and ice towering above wet beaches like abstract sculptures; he follows a group of researchers taking soil samples during the hot summer of 2019; and finally lands in the semi-decaying harbor town of Tiksi.

This large-format limited edition comes with an archival pigment print titled Muostakh 07, Buor-Khaya Gulf, Siberia 08/2019. Measuring 8 x 10 inches, the print is signed and numbered; the book is published in an edition of 50 copies.



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Catalog: SPRING 2021 p. 72   

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Olaf Otto Becker: Siberian SummerOlaf Otto Becker: Siberian Summer

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Edited by Nadine Barth.

Siberia might not be the first place most people think of when they begin planning their summer vacation. But German photographer Olaf Otto Becker (born 1959) is no stranger to the permafrost zone: since the 1990s, he has documented remote areas such as Iceland and Greenland and gained recognition for his photographs of icebergs, capturing their increasingly ephemeral beauty in the face of climate change. In his most recent adventure, Becker trains his eye on Siberia’s varied landscapes as he follows a group of researchers taking soil samples during the Russian province’s unusually warm summer of 2019.

Collected in this clothbound volume are a selection of Becker’s most compelling images: children play in the declining harbor town of Tiksi, while inhospitably craggy cliffs loom over wet beaches like enormous abstract sculptures. Siberia’s unique splendor is a sight to behold for as long as we have the opportunity to behold it.



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Hatje Cantz

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Clth, 13.5 x 10.75 in. / 192 pgs / 100 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2020 p. 96   

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Olaf Otto Becker: IlulissatOlaf Otto Becker: Ilulissat

Sculptures of Change — Greenland 2003–2017

Published by Hatje Cantz.

German photographer Olaf Otto Becker (born 1959) has returned to the Arctic several times since his first visit in 2003. The travels recorded in this volume begin in Ilulissat, one of the oldest settlements in western Greenland.



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Hatje Cantz

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Hardcover, 11 x 8.75 in. / 96 pgs / 48 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2018 p. 200   

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Olaf Otto Becker: Reading the LandscapeOlaf Otto Becker: Reading the Landscape

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Text by William Ewing.

In his Habitat series, Olaf Otto Becker (born 1959) presents idyllic dreamlike places—paradisical tableaus from the jungles of Malaysia and Indonesia. (Romantic floodplains, tree trunks slung with liana vines, niches for countless life forms—these are the untouched tropical rainforests of legend.) Even the temperate rainforest of Redwood National Parks in California seems reassuringly intact: the mammoth trees are surviving thanks to rigorous conservation measures. By contrast, in the second half of his series Becker shows what happens across the globe when international corporations clear large tracts of land and giant areas of barren, treeless terrain result. Erosion also does its work, and no life can survive in these places. In the final section, Becker presents the artificial "forests" conceived by various international architects to insert greenery into urban space.

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Hatje Cantz

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Hardcover, 13.75 x 11 in. / 160 pgs / 85 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2015 p. 106   

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Olaf Otto Becker: Under the Nordic LightOlaf Otto Becker: Under the Nordic Light

A Journey Through Time: Iceland 1999–2011

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Text by Petra Giloy-Hirtz.

For more than ten years, German photographer Olaf Otto Becker (born 1959) has trawled the Arctic and far northern regions with his large-format camera in search of primordial landscapes. Becker’s photographs attain the most sublime effects of which photography is capable, recording landscapes unscathed by human habitation, but very much affected by its consequences. Under the Nordic Light contains both new and previously published photographs of Iceland. “When I arrived in Iceland for the first time, I was deeply impressed by the Nordic light,” Becker told an interviewer. “The colors were largely subdued with subtle nuances, nearly black and white at first glance, but astonishingly colorful at second glance. These conditions enabled me to work with color like a painter.” This volume establishes Becker as the foremost chronicler of these wild landscapes.

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Clth, 13.5 x 10.5 in. / 160 pgs / 93 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2012 p. 64   

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Olaf Otto Becker: Above ZeroOlaf Otto Becker: Above Zero

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Text by Dr. Konrad Steffen. Interview by Freddi Langer.

Following Broken Line, a prizewinning portrait of the coast of Greenland, Olaf Otto Becker (born in Travemünde, 1959) turns his attention to the interior of the island in his new series, Above Zero. Second only to Antarctica, Greenland has the largest inland ice surfaces in the world. Becker's spectacular portraits of this region are taken during physically strenuous, sometimes life-threatening treks among glacial crevasses and melting ice floes, with a cumbersome large-format camera. His photo studies draw out the overwhelming beauty of this icy landscape, while documenting their present fragility: dust and rust in the air form black, crusty deposits, which, in conjunction with global warming, accelerate the melting of the ice sheets--with what will probably be inevitable, catastrophic results. Becker warns that even in these uninhabited regions, human actions can have fatal consequences.

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Hatje Cantz

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Clth, 13.5 x 11 in. / 176 pgs / 75 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2009 p. 64   

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Olaf Otto Becker: Broken LineOlaf Otto Becker: Broken Line

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Text by Gerry Badger, Christoph Schaden.

Olaf Otto Becker, born in 1959, worked for almost four years and covered thousands of miles by boat creating these photographs of the coastline of Greenland. The resulting images, made in the clear light of the midsummer night over long exposures, are worth the effort. Almost shadowless neo-romantic dreamscapes, they are unrealistically beautiful. Becker sometimes waits days for the right image or condition to appear in order to produce a single image--a process that leaves him with only about 25 photographs per year. Though visually diverse, all of the pictures share the contemplative character of their creator. Becker, who was once a painter, doesn't photograph scenery: He builds compositions, using his eye and his patience to develop a work of melancholic beauty, in the powerful iconography of the nineteenth-century landscape. He has exhibited widely in Europe, and his previous monograph was short-listed for the Rencontres D'Arles Book Award.

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Hatje Cantz

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Clothbound, 13.5 x 11 in. / 144 pgs / 70 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2007 p. 71   

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