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The Last Pictures
Author | : Trevor Paglen |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2012-09-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780520954298 |
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Human civilizations' longest lasting artifacts are not the great Pyramids of Giza, nor the cave paintings at Lascaux, but the communications satellites that circle our planet. In a stationary orbit above the equator, the satellites that broadcast our TV signals, route our phone calls, and process our credit card transactions experience no atmospheric drag. Their inert hulls will continue to drift around Earth until the Sun expands into a red giant and engulfs them about 4.5 billion years from now. The Last Pictures, co-published by Creative Time Books, is rooted in the premise that these communications satellites will ultimately become the cultural and material ruins of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, far outlasting anything else humans have created. Inspired in part by ancient cave paintings, nuclear waste warning signs, and Carl Sagan's Golden Records of the 1970s, artist/geographer and MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Trevor Paglen has developed a collection of one hundred images that will be etched onto an ultra-archival, golden silicon disc. The disc, commissioned by Creative Time, will then be sent into orbit onboard the Echostar XVI satellite in September 2012, as both a time capsule and a message to the future. The selection of 100 images, which are the centerpiece of the book, was influenced by four years of interviews with leading scientists, philosophers, anthropologists, and artists about the contradictions that characterize contemporary civilizations. Consequently, The Last Pictures engages some of the most profound questions of the human experience, provoking discourse about communication, deep time, and the economic, environmental, and social uncertainties that define our historical moment. Copub: Creative Time Books
The Last Pictures
Author | : Trevor Paglen |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2012-09-19 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780520275003 |
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Chronicles the project that attempts to explain what happened to the human civilizations far in the future after they have disappeared.
The Last Flower
Author | : James Thurber |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Parables |
ISBN | : 1888683457 |
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Reasoned and Unreasoned Images
Author | : Josh Ellenbogen |
Publsiher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9780271052595 |
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"Examines three projects in late nineteenth-century scientific photography: the endeavors of Alphonse Bertillon, Francis Galton, and Etienne-Jules Marey. Develops new theoretical perspectives on the history of photographic technology, as well as the history of scientific imaging more generally"--
All in the Wild
Author | : Jason Leo Bantle |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2007-06 |
Genre | : Animals |
ISBN | : 0978340604 |
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The Book of Veles
Author | : JONAS. BENDIKSEN |
Publsiher | : Gost Books |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2021-07-13 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1910401617 |
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Photographs of contemporary Veles are intertwined with fragments from an archaeological discovery also called 'the Book of Veles' -- a cryptic collection of 40 'ancient' wooden boards discovered in Russia in 1919, written in a proto-Slavic language. It was claimed to be a history of the Slavic people and the god Veles himself--the pre-Christian Slavic god of mischief, chaos and deception
Last Lecture
Author | : Perfection Learning Corporation |
Publsiher | : Turtleback |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1663608199 |
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The Last Resort
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105215293395 |
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A revised edition of the classic book that launched Martin Parr and transformed the world of documentary photography.