【中商原版】Ancient Trees: Portraits of Time 进口艺术 古树：时间的肖像 树木植物摄影集

Ancient Trees

古树摄影集

/ 雄伟迷人的古树黑白照片 /

●产品信息——

出版商：Abbeville Press; 插图版（2014 年 9 月 9 日）

语言：英语

精装：104页

ISBN-13：978-0789211958

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

●内容简介——

• Beth Moon为拍摄古树而进行了 14 年的探索，她的足迹遍及美国、欧洲、亚洲、中东和非洲。她的一些主题孤立地生长在偏远的山腰、私人庄园或自然保护区；其他人在文明中保持着自豪，但往往不稳定。然而，所有人都拥有一种因年龄而变得完美的神秘美，以及将我们与比我们自己更伟大的时间和自然感联系起来的力量。月亮在她非凡的照片中捕捉到的正是这种美丽和力量。
• 这本漂亮的书以整页双色调图版的形式展示了月球上近 70 幅精美的树木肖像。图中的树木包括生长在英国教堂墓地中的、树龄超过 1000 年的、缠结在一起的空心红豆杉。马达加斯加的猴面包树，被称为“倒立的树”，因为它们巨大的树干和不起眼的树枝奇怪地不成比例；还有奇异的龙血树，红树汁，伞状，只生长在非洲之角附近的索科特拉岛上。
• Moon 的叙述性说明描述了每棵树的自然和文化历史，而纽约植物园园艺和生活收藏副总裁 Todd Forrest 则简要介绍了古树的生物学和保护。评论家史蒂文布朗的一篇文章定义了穆恩在从威廉亨利福克斯塔尔博特到莎莉曼的树木摄影传统中的独特地位，并探讨了树木作为艺术主题的挑战和潜力。

Captivating black-and-white photographs of the world’s most majestic ancient trees.

Beth Moon’s fourteen-year quest to photograph ancient trees has taken her across the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Some of her subjects grow in isolation, on remote mountainsides, private estates, or nature preserves; others maintain a proud, though often precarious, existence in the midst of civilization. All, however, share a mysterious beauty perfected by age and the power to connect us to a sense of time and nature much greater than ourselves. It is this beauty, and this power, that Moon captures in her remarkable photographs.

This handsome volume presents nearly seventy of Moon’s finest tree portraits as full-page duotone plates. The pictured trees include the tangled, hollow-trunked yews—some more than a thousand years old—that grow in English churchyards; the baobabs of Madagascar, called “upside-down trees” because of the curious disproportion of their giant trunks and modest branches; and the fantastical dragon’s-blood trees, red-sapped and umbrella-shaped, that grow only on the island of Socotra, off the Horn of Africa.

Moon’s narrative captions describe the natural and cultural history of each individual tree, while Todd Forrest, vice president for horticulture and living collections at The New York Botanical Garden, provides a concise introduction to the biology and preservation of ancient trees. An essay by the critic Steven Brown defines Moon’s unique place in a tradition of tree photography extending from William Henry Fox Talbot, and explores the challenges and potential of the tree as a subject for art.

作者简介

贝丝·穆恩（Beth Moon）

美国的摄影师Beth Moon从1999年开始，花了整整14年，拍摄了全世界各地的古树，有些树龄甚至超过了4000年。姿态各异，生长环境不尽相同。它们见证了人类的发展。她为这个系列的照片命名“Portraits of Time”（时间肖像），并出版影集《Ancient Trees: Portraits of Time》。