A collection of images by celebrated photographer Nick Brandt, whose epic, disturbingly beautiful panoramas address the escalating destruction of the natural world at the hands of man.

Moving into color photography for the first time, this monograph of new work from photographer Nick Brandt is both a technical tour de force of contemporary image making and an ambitiously scaled project that uses constructed sets of a scale typically seen in major film productions.

Each image is a combination of two photographs taken weeks apart, almost all from the exact same camera position. The starting point of each composition is always the animal photographed in its native savannah landscape. Brandt then designs and builds sets in the precise location of the original photograph depicting the human developments, such as gas stations, highway and bridge construction sites, and bus stations, that are invading the East African landscape. A second sequence is then photographed with the completed set, populated by a large cast of people drawn from local communities and beyond.

The final images are powerful composites of the two source photographs, which presents the wild animals and the people as equal victims of the environmental―both now aliens in their once-natural, once-native habitat.

Including an introductory essay by Nick Brandt and a descriptive behind-the- scenes section, this new book is a must-have publication for all fans of Brandt’s work.

著名攝影師 Nick Brandt 史詩般的攝影集，其令人不安但又極具美感的全景圖描述出人類對自然世界不斷的破壞。Nick Brandt 罕有地採用了彩色攝影，表現出當代影像製作的精湛技術，亦作為一個充滿野心的項目，作品使用了電影作品中常見的比例。

每張影像都是以兩張相隔數週拍攝而成的照片組合，幾乎所有影像都是來自完全相同的相機位置。每個構圖的起點源於在原生大草原中拍攝的動物。然後 Brandt 在原始照片的同樣位置重新設計及建造出場景，描繪正在入侵東非大自然景觀的人類發展；例如加油站、高速公路、橋樑建築工地以及公共汽車站。然後，結合來自當地社區及其他地區的人群組成完整的場景一同拍攝。

最終的影像是結合兩張原始照片的強大組合而成，將野生動物和人類同視為環境的平等受害者 － 現在大家都只是位於曾經是自然的、曾經是原生的棲息地上的外星生物。

這本著作包含由 Nick Brandt 撰寫的介紹性文章及親自描述幕後製作，是喜歡他作品的支持者必備的收藏級出版物。

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