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Civilization: The Way We Live Now
Contributor(s): Ewing, William A. (Author), Roussell, Holly (Author)
ISBN: 0500021708     ISBN-13: 9780500021705
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
OUR PRICE:   $54.00  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: November 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Photography | Photoessays & Documentaries
- Photography | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General
Dewey: 779
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 9.9" W x 11.9" (5.25 lbs) 352 pages
 
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We hurtle together into the future at ever-increasing speed--or so it seems to the collective psyche. Perpetually evolving, morphing, building and demolishing, rethinking, reframing and reshaping the world around and ahead--and the people within it--an emerging, planetary-wide Civilization is our grand, global, collective endeavor. Never before in human history have so many people been so interconnected, and so interdependent.

With close to 500 images, many previously unpublished, this landmark publication takes stock of the material and spiritual cultures that make up civilization. Ranging from the ordinary to the extraordinary, from our great collective achievements to our ruinous collective failings, Civilization: The Way We Live Now explores the complexity of contemporary civilization through the rich, nuanced language of photography.

Featuring images by some 140 photographers--from Reiner Riedler's families at leisure parks, Raimond Wouda's high schools, Wang Qingsong's Work, Work, Work and Cindy Sherman's Society Portraits, to Lauren Greenfield's displays of ostentatious wealth, Edward Burtynsky's oil fields, Pablo Lopez Luz's views on a sprawling contemporary megapolis, Thomas Struth's images of high technology, Xing Danwen's electronic wastelands and Taryn Simon's Contraband, Civilization draws together the threads of humankind's ever-changing, frenetic, collective life across the globe.

Visually epic, Civilization contains eight thematic chapters, each featuring powerful imagery and accompanied by provocative essays, quotes, and concise statements by the artists themselves.


Contributor Bio(s): Ewing, William A.: - William A. Ewing has been an author, lecturer, curator of photography, and museum director for more than forty years. His many publications on photography include The Body (1994), Landmark (2014) and Edward Burtynsky: Essential Elements (2016).Roussell, Holly: - Holly Roussell is an associate curator and art historian specializing in photography and contemporary art from Asia.