Sujets :
Longévité
Nature - Esthétique
Arbres
Plantes
Photographie artistique

Dépouillement du document :
Preface: The World as We Know It
Art Essay: The Future Is Invented with Fragments from the Past
Hans Ulrich Obrist
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Science Essay: How Lives Become Long
OLTW World Map
North America
Giant Sequoia
Bristlecone Pine
Creosote Bush
Mojave Yucca
Honey Mushroom
Box Huckleberry
Palmer's Oak
Pando
The Senator
Map Lichens
Linnean Taxonomy
South America
Llareta (or Yareta)
Alerce
Brain Coral
Europe
Fortingall Yew
Chestnut of 100 Horses
Posidonia Sea Grass
Olive
Spruce
Deep Timeline
Asia
Jomon Sugi
Sri Maha Bodhi
Siberian Actinobacteria
Africa
Baobab
Underground Forests
Welwitschia
Australia
Antarctic Beech
Tasmanian Lomatia
Huon Pine
Eucalyptus: NSW and WA
Stromatolites
Antarctica
Antarctic Moss
Growth Strategy
Roads Not (Yet) Taken
Researchers, Guides, Guests, and "A Little Way Through"

Résumé :
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.

Collection : Bibliothèque de l'École nationale de cirque

Localisation : Bibliothèque

Cote : 571.879 022 2 S9647o 2014

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