1048.Book No. 8: ashes and snow
Gregory Colbert's photographic artworks capture extraordinary moments of contact between man and animal. Gregory Colbert...
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(12/06/07) Gregory Colbert's photographic artworks capture extraordinary moments of contact between man and animal. Gregory Colbert has spent thirteen years patiently filming and photographing elephants, whales, birds, and other animals in such places as India, Burma, Ethiopia, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Namibia, Egypt, the island of Dominica, Tonga, and Antarctica. ashes and snow, Colbert's lifelong project, explores the nature of animals in their natural habitat as they interact with human beings. His images attempt to lift the natural and artificial barriers between humans and other species—to re-awaken in us an understanding of our shared animal nature. ashes and snow Book No. 8 is a collection of cheetah and meerkat images from the Venetian Exhibition, Italy, 2002 and New York Exhibition, 2005. The books are handcrafted, printed and bound in Italy; the covers created out of hand-made Nepalese paper, coated with beeswax and wrapped in matching thin-waxed chording.See less