Endangered
By: Erik Hijweege ; authors, Craig Hilton-Taylor, Lien van der Leij, Kees Moeliker and Redmond O'Hanlon
Contributors: Hilton-Taylor, Craig, writer of supplementary textual content; Moeliker, Kees, writer of supplementary textual content; O'Hanlon, Redmond, 1947- writer of supplementary textual content; Leij, Lien van der, writer of added text
Publisher: Ella Editions
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Amsterdam]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 87
ISBN-13: 9789082280418
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Artistic Photography; Photography of animals; Endangered species; Pictorial works
Description: By capturing threatened animal species in ice, photographer Erik Hijweege creates confusion. The images set his audience thinking. Is this animal encased in ice the last of its kind, or is it simply preserved, left in stasis and immortalised until it can perhaps be resurrected? Hijweege, moreover, applies an archaic, rarely used technique to produce his images: the wet collodion process dating from 1851. The depictions of species like the polar bear, bison, gorilla and elephant seem like artefacts from another time or our future. In this way, we become witnesses to a project that has far-reaching implications for our ways of thinking about extinction, preservation and conservation.