Olaf Otto Becker - Ilulissat : sculptures of change, Greenland, 2003-2017 /
Ever since his first visit to the Arctic in 2003, the photographer Olaf Otto Becker has returned there again and again. Starting in Ilulissat, one of the oldest settlements in western Greenland, Becker and his camera have traveled by boat on the polar sea, looking for icebergs. Like floating giants,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English German |
| Language Notes: | Parallel texts in English and German. |
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Berlin :
Hatje Cantz,
[2017]
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| Summary: | Ever since his first visit to the Arctic in 2003, the photographer Olaf Otto Becker has returned there again and again. Starting in Ilulissat, one of the oldest settlements in western Greenland, Becker and his camera have traveled by boat on the polar sea, looking for icebergs. Like floating giants, the white mountains jut out of the water, their many majestic shapes reflected in it below. In their peaceful sublimity there is always also a sense of fragility. |
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| Physical Description: | 95 pages : color illustrations ; 25 x 29 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9783775743839 3775743839 |