ANOTHER LANGUAGE by Mårten Lange [SPECIAL EDITION]

スウェーデン人フォトグラファー、モルテン・ランゲ（Mårten Lange）の作品集。自然や生物のもつ美しさ・重要性を追い求め、約1年半かけて制作された100に及ぶトライトーンイメージの中からセレクトされた41のイメージを収録。

"A physical delineation of nature terminates at the point where the sphere of intellect begins, and a new world of mind is opened to our view. It marks the limit, but does not pass it." - Alexander von Humboldt (1845)

The aesthetics of science, nature and the materiality of things are recurring themes in Mårten Lange’s work and in Another Language, his first major publication, Lange delves even deeper with this fascination for the natural world. Combining images of flora, fauna and natural phenomena in an intimate and beautifully crafted book, Lange teases out a subtle narrative - a meteor crashes, a landmass is visible and a distant planet occupies the final page - but the book is more akin to the workings of a scientist collecting specimens. Together the photographs create a cryptic and heterogeneous index of nature, with recurring shapes, patterns and texture, where the clarity and simplicity of the individual photographs contrasts with the enigmatic whole. Shot in his signature black and white style, his subjects are isolated from their environments, taking on sculptural qualities. Ranging from the sublime (lightning, mountains, a star) to the commonplace (ducks, rocks, a fish), these phenomena all attain equal importance through the democracy of Lange’s photographic treatment.

by Mårten Lange

¥33,000 (tax incl.)

hardcover in a box
including one of four prints signed by Mårten Lange
print: inkjet print

96 pages
140 x 210 mm
black and white
limited edition of 100 copies (4 different prints / 25 copies for each)
2012

SPECIAL EDITION
FIRST EDITION
SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY MÅRTEN LANGE

published by MACK

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