| Title | : | Across the Ravaged Land |
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| ISBN | : | 1419709453 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781419709456 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 120 |
| Publication | : | First published September 3, 2013 |
In addition to a range of starkly powerful animal portraits, Brandt introduces some new themes, as humans make an appearance for the first time. He also contributes two essays summing up his photographic odyssey, which has taken more than a decade of intensive work to complete.
Across the Ravaged Land Reviews
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You never know what you will discover when you walk through a library. I noticed this book on a display with other oversized titles. This book is both profoundly sad and beautiful. The author’s note describing the staggering loss of life to wildlife in East Africa to the hands of poachers is alarming. Highly recommended!
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How to review a book like this? The photography is amazing, certainly, but there's also the range of subject matter: from living elephants and lions to calcified birds and bats to, in one instance, a recently killed elephant. While the photography is always top notch - among my favorites ever! - the vision of Brandt ties it all together. Speaking of his vision, I even enjoyed his written introductions. This book, taken as a whole, spoke to me heart and soul in a way no other book has before. I hope someday I can afford to pick up the first two volumes in this trilogy...
Also, I've wondered which organization would be a good one to support of those who aim to protect the elephants of Africa. It seems I have my answer in Nick's Big Life Foundation which I learned of through this book, -
Nick Brandt has been my favorite photographer/artist for quite a while. This is the third book in his trilogy, the first two are On This Earth and A Shadow Falls. I do not own On This Earth yet as it is out of print but his 2nd book and this one are beyond amazing. Not only do I love his black and white film photography, but he is also big into wildlife protection and works with the Big Life Foundation. These books were not cheap and I hope that libraries have at least one of them so everyone can experience his amazing wildlife photography. Highly recommend.
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Absolutely devastating. I walked around in a daze after paging through this book's unforgettable photos and reading about the elephants being killed off for their ivory tusks. And other animals for their body parts. Just being wiped out by poachers. I had to blink my eyes and look at the publication date. 2013. Really? This has been an issue for dozens of years. And it's getting worse? So disheartening. Such an unfortunate, necessary, sad book.
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Beautiful black and white photographs of amazing creatures in Africa. The destruction done by poachers is horrible and I’m glad that Nick Brandt is bringing light to the dark corners of the world.
A great coffee table picture book (I borrowed it from the library - #LifeHack) -
Amazing photos and you feel emotional after reading the essays in the beginning of the book about the wild animals being killed for tusks (and skin/meat) at such a rapid speed all across Africa...
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If this doesn't make you cry, I just don't know what to tell you. These photos are elegant and absolutely heartbreaking. Species disappearing before our eyes, and because of us. Humankind. I just don't know what else I can say. (Other than to support Brandt's "big life foundation", and to do our part in preserving the environment and earth's animals in general)
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I recently read about Lake Natron and this book was mentioned. Off to the Library I went.
What GORGEOUS photos! Love love love the Lion in the shaft of light.
I recommend anyone to read about the interesting Lake and also to get this book. Well done -
Beautiful and disturbing.
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Absolutely GORGEOUS.
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Got this book after seeing the calcified animals series doing its rounds all over internet recently. While full-size harcopy print is amazing and shows details that cannot be seen or appreciated online I must say the electronic versions of images show the clarity, depth and contrast the prints seem to be somewhat missing. The book is more sepia coloured, more subtle, different. But great in its own way, so 5 stars without any doubt.
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Across the Ravaged Land is the third in Nick Brandt's trilogy of photography books about African wildlife. Each book is a bit darker and in his introduction Brandt points out that the elephant population in Africa diminishes by about 10 per cent per year (the elephant featured on the cover of his first book was killed by poachers shortly before the publication of this book). The images are exceptional, and made poignant by the context of the book. Highly recommended.
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Absolutely gorgeous photography and heartbreaking reality. I highly recommend all of Brandt's works and his charity, Big Life Foundation.
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I think this must be one of the most powerful books I've ever read. What few words it contains are succinct and to the point gracefully and devastatingly backed up with a series of pictures that I suspect will leave a lasting impression ... I must get the kids to give it a going over.
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Calcified series was a personal favorite.
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Beautiful.
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Perfect.
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Astounding photos and top-quality production.
