The oldest living things in the world - With essays by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Carl Zimmer

Rachel Sussman

University Of Chicago Press

2014

304 páginas

10h 8m

ISBN-13: 9780226057507

'The Oldest Living Things in the World' is an epic journey through time and space. Over the past decade, artist Rachel Sussman has researched, worked with biologists, and traveled the world to photograph continuously living organisms that are 2,000 years old and older. Spanning from Antarctica to Greenland, the Mojave Desert to the Australian Outback, the result is a stunning and unique visual collection of ancient organisms unlike anything that has been created in the arts or sciences before, insightfully and accessibly narrated by Sussman along the way. Alongside the photographs, Sussman relays fascinating - and sometimes harrowing - tales of her global adventures tracking down her subjects and shares insights from the scientists who research them. 'The oldest living things in the world' are a record and celebration of the past, a call to action in the present, and a barometer of our future.