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Planet earth, home sweet home
In the year 2000, world-renowned wildlife photographer Frans Lanting
set out on a personal journey to photograph the evolution of life on earth.
He made pilgrimages to true time capsules like a remote lagoon in Western
Australia, spent time in research collections photographing forms of microscopic
life, and even found ways to create visual parallels between the growth
of organs in the human body and the patterns seen on the surface of the
earth. The resulting volume is a glorious picture book of planet earth
depicting the amazing biodiversity that surrounds us all. Lanting’s true
gift lies beyond his technical mastery: it is his eye for geometry in
the beautiful chaos of nature that allows him to show us the world as
it has never been seen before. From crabs to jellyfish, diatoms to vast
geological formations, jungles to flowers, monkeys to human embryos, LIFE
is a testament to the magical beauty of life in all its forms and is Lanting’s
most remarkable achievement to date.
The photographer: Dutch-born Frans Lanting has been hailed as one of
the great nature photographers of our time. For the past two decades he
has documented wildlife and our relationship with nature in environments
from the Amazon to Antarctica. Exhibits of his photographs have been shown
at major museums in Paris, Milan, Tokyo, New York, Madrid, and Amsterdam.
Lanting’s previous TASCHEN titles include Eye to Eye, Jungles, and Penguin.
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