绝种和濒危：处于危险中的昆虫 Extinct & Endangered : Insects in Peril

基本信息

Format Hardback | 144 pages

Dimensions 254 x 302 x 25.4mm | 1,179.34g

Publication date 01 Jan 2023

Publisher ABRAMS

Illustrations note 80 color photographs

ISBN10 1419759639

ISBN13 9781419759635

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

微距摄影大师Levon Biss的非凡图像捕捉了纽约美国自然历史博物馆收藏的正在消失的昆虫世界。

昆虫既是我们熟悉的动物伙伴，又是神秘的动物。它们似乎是坚不可摧的，但在全球范围内，昆虫物种正在悄然消失，这是地球上的生命正在经历的第六次大灭绝。

摄影师Levon Biss和美国自然历史博物馆的这个联合项目包含了博物馆收藏的40种灭绝或濒危物种的不可磨灭的图片，这些图片是由一个科学家团队从博物馆的大量藏品中挑选出来的。它们包括像帝王蝶和九斑瓢虫这样濒临灭绝的老朋友，以及偏远的澳大利亚豪勋爵岛粘虫，在20世纪的大部分时间里被认为已经灭绝，直到2001年发现了一个微小的种群并进行了人工饲养。所有这些都被送到比斯的工作室，他在那里创作了令人信服的肖像画，这些肖像画可以被放大300倍，显示出生动的全页形式和颜色的细节--一个我们肉眼看不见的世界。其结果是，这本书坚持认为这些小的、大多不为人知的生物具有重要的意义。

Extraordinary images by master macro photographer Levon Biss capture a vanishing world of insects from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History in New York

Insects are at once our most familiar fellow animals and the most mysterious. They appear to be indestructible, but globally, insect species are quietly disappearing in the sixth mass extinction that life on Earth is undergoing today. This joint project of photographer Levon Biss and the American Museum of Natural History contains indelible images of 40 extinct or endangered species in the museum’s collection, selected from its vast holdings by a team of scientists. They range from imperiled old friends like the monarch butterfly and the nine-spotted ladybug to the remote Lord Howe Island stick insect of Australia, thought to be extinct for most of the 20th century until a tiny population was discovered and bred in captivity in 2001. All were sent to Biss’s studio, where he created commanding portraits that can be enlarged 300-times lifesize to reveal vivid full-page details of form and color—a world invisible to our naked eyes. The result is a book that insists on the momentous significance of these small, mostly unknown creatures.

作者简介

Levon Biss被广泛认为是他那一代人中领先的微距摄影师。他对技术和灯光有着无可比拟的掌握，他通过数字方式将数千张照片组合在一起，建立了他的巨大图像。毕斯是《微雕》一书和展览的创作者。《昆虫的肖像》（2017），已在20个国家巡回展出，以及《种子和水果的隐藏之美》（2021）。他住在伦敦。纽约美国自然历史博物馆的无脊椎动物学部拥有2400万件标本，主要负责发展收藏、实地研究和实验室研究。

Levon Biss is widely regarded as the leading macro photographer of his generation. With an unmatched mastery of technique and lighting, he builds his massive images by digitally combining thousands of photographs. Biss is the creator of the book and exhibition Microsculpture: Portraits of Insects (2017), which has toured to 20 countries, and The Hidden Beauty of Seeds & Fruits (2021). He lives in London. The Division of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, with 24 million specimens, focuses on developing the collection, field research, and laboratory studies.