The Oldest Living Things in the World

Rachel Sussman is a contemporary artist based in Brooklyn. Her photographs and writing have been featured in such places as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, and NPR’s Picture Show. A trained member of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps, Sussman has spoken on her work at TED and the Long Now Foundation. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in the United States and Europe.

出版者:The University of Chicago Press

作者:Rachel Sussman

页数:304

出版时间:2014-4

价格:USD 45.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780226057507

图书标签:摄影自然艺术科普英文原版WorldThingsThe

The Oldest Living Things in the World is an epic journey through time and space. Over the past decade, artist Rachel Sussman has researched, worked with biologists, and traveled the world to photograph continuously living organisms that are 2,000 years old and older. Spanning from Antarctica to Greenland, the Mojave Desert to the Australian Outback, the result is a stunning and unique visual collection of ancient organisms unlike anything that has been created in the arts or sciences before, insightfully and accessibly narrated by Sussman along the way.

Her work is both timeless and timely, and spans disciplines, continents, and millennia. It is underscored by an innate environmentalism and driven by Sussman’s relentless curiosity. She begins at “year zero,” and looks back from there, photographing the past in the present. These ancient individuals live on every continent and range from Greenlandic lichens that grow only one centimeter a century, to unique desert shrubs in Africa and South America, a predatory fungus in Oregon, Caribbean brain coral, to an 80,000-year-old colony of aspen in Utah. Sussman journeyed to Antarctica to photograph 5,500-year-old moss; Australia for stromatolites, primeval organisms tied to the oxygenation of the planet and the beginnings of life on Earth; and to Tasmania to capture a 43,600-year-old self-propagating shrub that’s the last individual of its kind. Her portraits reveal the living history of our planet—and what we stand to lose in the future. These ancient survivors have weathered millennia in some of the world’s most extreme environments, yet climate change and human encroachment have put many of them in danger. Two of her subjects have already met with untimely deaths by human hands.

Alongside the photographs, Sussman relays fascinating – and sometimes harrowing – tales of her global adventures tracking down her subjects and shares insights from the scientists who research them. The oldest living things in the world are a record and celebration of the past, a call to action in the present, and a barometer of our future.

读后感

《世界上最老最老的生命》一书，是博物文库·生态与文明系列中的一种，此书的作者蕾切尔·萨斯曼的足迹遍布五大洲，耗费十年的时间与生物学家们一起工作，用镜头定格下了30种持续存在两千年以上的古老生命。包括格林兰的地衣；非洲的猴面包树；加勒比海的沟叶珊瑚；犹他州的8万...  

现代人通常所谓的旅行只不过是出于逃避生活的冗长、琐碎或重压而外出消闲、美食甚至猎艳。一切都包裹在文明的金属壳里，舒适故然舒适，但谈不上自由行走。抽掉了心灵和激情，感受不到“逆旅”的真实况味，自然也就体味不到生命中的难度或者英雄维度了。波德莱尔的诗是对他们（...  

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用户评价

结果大半文字篇幅不是讲这些生物，而是讲她寻找这些生物的过程……我发现我真的是对生活经历这种东西没有一点兴趣

爱不释手

amazing!

amazing!

朝菌不知晦朔，蟪蛄不知春秋