Brandt, Nick

Inherit the Dust [SIGNED - 2015 1ST EDITION & 1ST PRINTING]

Edwynn Houk Gallery, 2015. STL. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED COPY New York: Distributed Art Publishers 2016. Hardcover in pictorial dust jacket. 128 pages with numerous black and white photographic images by Nick Brandt throughout. SIGNED by Nick Brandt to the bottom corner of the title page. BOOK CONDITION: Fine; a tight clean copuy in a Very Good + dust jacket with a 2 inch closed tear to top left corner of front panel and signs of slight shelf wear at edges and corners.  SIGNED

Three years after the completion of his trilogy, On This Earth, A Shadow Falls Across the Ravaged Land, Nick Brandt returned to East Africa to photograph the escalating changes to the continent's natural world and its animals. In a series of epic panoramas, Brandt recorded the impact of man in places where animals used to roam, but no longer do. In each location, Brandt erected a life-size panel of one of his portrait photographs-showing groups of elephants, rhinos, giraffes, lions, cheetahs and zebras-placing the displaced animals on sites of explosive urban development, new factories, wastelands and quarries. The contemporary figures within the photographs seem oblivious to the presence of the panels and the animals represented in them, who are now no more than ghosts in the landscape. Inherit the Dust includes this new body of panoramic photographs along with original portraits of the animals used in the panoramas, 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. Fine / near fine. Item #1735
ISBN: 0692520546

Price: $95.00