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Background information
"The photo book 'The Imperfect Atlas' by American photo artist Peter FUNCH brings to light a dialogue on man’s severe and accelerated impact on nature, a solemn and mystifying visual archive of a wilderness the future may not behold. (...) The project addresses the passage of time and man’s continued and evolving effects on the environment. Appropriately, he explores the Anthropocene by employing a photographic technique invented at the height of the Industrial Revolution, that of RGB tri-color separations.Using maps and satellite imagery to locate the position where the postcard images were created, he recaptures the landscapes across three distinct exposures via red, green, and blue filters, transposed one on top of the other. As time collapses across the recreated landscapes, features and events are revealed or obscured by each successive filter, speaking to what Peter FUNCH calls 'our blindness to the consequences we are creating'.
Content
'The Imperfect Artlas' features images Peter FUNCH has captured during his various trips through the Northern Cascade Mountain Range. The book is an imperfect recreation of landscapes and wilderness as depicted in the archive of vintage postcards and ephemera of the region the artist amassed throughout his travels." (© TBW, 2019)About the American photo artist, Peter FUNCH
Photo books by Peter FUNCH
- Format
- Pb. with four-color printed PVC dust jacket, 22,5 x 31 x 1,5 cm., 144 pp 70 color ills. + index of sourced reference materials, text language: English