Research Catalog

Title

Dam / editor: Carsten Meier ; text: Katie Lee [and three others].

Author

Meier, Carsten

Publication

• Bielefeld, Germany : Kerber, [2015]
• ©2015

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Details

Additional Authors

Lee, Katie.

Description

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps; 24 x 31 cm.

Summary

Since 2010, photographer Carsten Meier has been documenting dams across the U.S. and Europe. Embedded within the surrounding landscape, these purely functional architectures develop a unique aesthetic with the appearance of manmade mountain ranges. In their imposing massiveness these structures at once serve as monuments to humanity's will to shape nature and demonstrate the dubiousness of its value. Consistently photographed from a one-point perspective and rendered in large format, in over 100 images a typology of dam architecture is presented. Apart from Hoover Dam, Meier also photographed dams known from popular movies, such as, the Contra Dam (from 'James Bond: Golden Eye') or the Edertalsperre (Eder Dam) (from 'Dam Buster').

Series Statement

Kerber photo art

Uniform Title

Kerber photoart.

Subject

• Photography, Artistic > Catalogs
• Dams > Pictorial works
• Dams
• Photography, Artistic

Genre/Form

• Catalogs.
• Pictorial works.

Note

• Chiefly illustrated.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

JQG 19-435

ISBN

• 9783735601056
• 3735601057

LCCN

9783735601056

OCLC

929454339

Author

Meier, Carsten, photographer, editor.

Title

Dam / editor: Carsten Meier ; text: Katie Lee [and three others].

Publisher

Bielefeld, Germany : Kerber, [2015]

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Kerber photo art

Kerber photoart.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Lee, Katie.

Other Standard Identifier

9783735601056

Research Call Number

JQG 19-435