James Geurts - Floodplain
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0648262804
ISBN 13
9780648262800
Category
Fotografie Arhivă/Archive Photography
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Publication Year
2018
Publisher
Pages
208
Description
Floodplain illuminates the ongoing tension between nature and culture embodied by Australias Yarra River. The floods that Melbourne periodically experiences are physical manifestations of the profound lack of understanding that European settlers had of the river before they set about altering and developing it. Through a practice involving field research, archival material, site-specific interventions, and works on paper, James Geurts examines how the river has been dammed, widened, straightened, and rerouted, its banks encased in concrete and its marshlands covered. His project emphasises the dynamics of the ancient river and its turbulent relationship with colonisation. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
