Looking at Trees assembles the world's best contemporary photography of trees, forests, and woodlands into a single sustained argument for slowing down and reconsidering our relationship with the natural world. With over twenty photographers represented, it is a visual reckoning with what we routinely overlook.
About This Book
Trees are among the oldest and most ecologically vital presences on earth, yet we walk past them without a second glance. Edited by Sophie Howarth, Looking at Trees makes the case that contemporary photography is one of the most powerful tools we have for restoring that attention. Drawing together a diverse international roster of photographers — from Richard Mosse's infrared interventions to Yoshinori Mizutani's hyperreal urban canopies — the book moves across documentary, fine art, and conceptual modes without privileging any one approach. For anyone interested in landscape photography, environmental thought, or the intersection of nature and contemporary art, this is an essential reference.
Key Features
- 224 pages of full-colour contemporary photography spanning documentary, fine art, and conceptual approaches to trees and forests
- Photographers include Marc Alcock, Yoshinori Mizutani, Richard Mosse, Olivia Lavergne, Beth Moon, David Spero, Paul Hart, Myoung Ho Lee, Robert Voit, and Einar Örn, among others
- Published by Hoxton Mini Press
What You'll Discover
- How photographers working across radically different visual languages — infrared, large-format, colour documentary — each arrive at a distinct understanding of trees as subject matter
- The tension between trees as individual presences and as components of larger ecological and cultural systems, explored across more than twenty bodies of work
- How contemporary photography can reframe a subject as familiar as a tree into something philosophically and aesthetically urgent
- A wide geographic and cultural range of perspectives on forests and woodlands, from urban environments to remote wilderness settings
About the Author
Sophie Howarth is the editor of Looking at Trees. [Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 224
- Dimensions: 28.5 x 23.7 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781914314407
- Publisher: Hoxton Mini Press
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Photographers, landscape architects, environmental designers, and anyone interested in the intersection of contemporary photography and ecological thinking.