
Publisher | The Eriskay Connection 2019 |
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Edition | Hardcover , 176 pages |
Genres | Documentary photography , Wildlife photography , Conceptual photography |
Publisher's description
The term ‘deep time’ refers to geological time and encompasses the age of the earth which scientists estimate to be about 4.5 billion years old. The photographs in this book were made in Lewes, Delaware (US), surrounding beaches and in laboratory using microscopes and emerged from an intense period of learning about the world of the horseshoe crab which unexpectedly became a sort of muse for Lynn Alleva Lilley.
No animal deserves the title ‘living fossil’ more than the horseshoe crab, seemingly unchanged since before the age of dinosaurs. A Japanese myth claims that they are the reincarnation of the souls of Japanese samurai warriors roaming the bottom of the sea. But it is the spawning of the horseshoe crab during the night’s high tides of the new and full moons of May and June that is especially thrilling. The horseshoe crab’s response to these universal forces, which has continued for more than 450 million years, triggers us to imagine ‘deep time’ and human’s emergence from it.
Through her poetic way of photographing Alleva Lilley manages to capture the wondrous beauty of our planet and the mystic life of the horseshoe crab in many different ways, resulting in an immersive photo book which references encyclopedias and the illustrative 19th century books on nature.
By the confluence of art and science Deep Time ponders our place in time, in evolution and in the whole of all life forms.
Including an essay by research-based storyteller Helen J. Bullard.
Specifications
Book title | Deep Time |
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Photographer | Lynn Alleva Lilley |
ISBN 10 | 9492051427 / 94-92051-42-7 |
ISBN 13 | 9789492051424 / 978-94-92051-42-4 |
Publisher | The Eriskay Connection |
Publish date | May 2019 |
Publish year | 2019 |
Genre | Documentary photography Wildlife photography Conceptual photography |
Book format | Hardcover |
Book format details | in sleeve |
Printing technique | Full colour offset |
Number of copies | 750 copies |
Language | English |
Pages | 176 pages |
Color or b/w photographs | Color |
Dimensions | 20,0 x 28,1 cm |
Book designer | Rob van Hoesel |
Other information | Essay: Helen J. Bullard Narrative construction: Lynn Alleva Lilley, Rob van Hoesel Poem: Jane Hirshfield Lithography: Sebastiaan Hanekroot (Colour & Books) Production: Jos Morree (Fine Books) |