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"In the late 18th century, a terrible typhoon devastated Pingelap, a small atoll in the Pacific Ocean. Its king, one of the few survivors, was a carrier of the rare achromatopsia gene, which causes complete color blindness. Over time, this hereditary disease spread through the isolated community, and since then the islanders have seen the world in black and white. The phenomenon was first described by the famous neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks. A portrait of these people, who are considered blind in Micronesia, resulted in the photo book 'The Island of the Color Blind' by Belgian photographer Sanne de WILDE, a conceptual selection of images that obscure or emphasize their eyes, faces and way of seeing. The viewer is led into a dream world of colorful possibilities.Content
Long out of print with the publisher, Sanne de WILDE's book of photographs 'The Island of the Colorblind' consists of 'normal' but black-and-white converted digital photographs and infrared images. A third part of the series are the 'achromatic paintings', in which, at the request of the artist, colorblind people from Holland have painted the black-and-white photos in color. Glaring flames illuminate the black and white, trees in pink, a thousand shades of gray, all the colors of the rainbow." (slightly adapted publisher's text, © Kehrer Verlag, 2017)
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- GERMAN ED.! Gebundene Ausgabe, 24 x 29,5 cm., 400 S. mit 521 Abb. (353 davon in Farbe) Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
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