On planet Earth
Subtitle: travels in an unfamiliar land
By: photographs by Jan Staller ; flood plain, an original story by Luc Sante.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Aperture
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 95
Subjects: Staller, Jan, 1952-; Photography, Artistic.; Landscape photography.
Description: On Planet Earth: Travels in an Unfamiliar Land collects Jan Staller's strangely seductive photographs from locations across the United States and around the world - from abandoned factories to military test sites, from high-tech water-purification plants to heavy machinery that looks like it fell from outer space. Staller's square-format and panoramic photographs reveal bizarre and forgotten constructions of industrial society, set against a symphony of color and light.

Complementing the images in On Planet Earth is a narrative by Luc Sante, who shares Staller's fascination with urban and industrial wastelands, the history they contain, and the mysteries they conceal. Together, Staller's photographs and Sante's text offer a stimulating, Technicolor tour of the unknown at the edge of the contemporary landscape.