Research Catalog

Title

The state of water / Brad Temkin.

Author

Temkin, Brad, 1956-

Publication

• Santa Fe, NM : Radius Books, [2019]
• New York : D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
• Verona Italy : Editoriale Bortolazzi-Stei
• ©2019

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Details

Description

1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color photographs; 35 x 28 cm +

Summary

Brad Temkin brings attention to the visual and ecological beauty of the transformation of water, by showing the structures and processes that most people do not even think about. Most storm water runoff is considered waste; yet more than 700 cities reclaim and re-use wastewater and storm water with combined sewer systems, recycling it for agricultural uses and even drinking water. As we mimic nature and separate the impurities like sludge or salt or chemicals, a transformation occurs. Temkin believes it matters less what each structure really is used for, or whether the water in his pictures are pure or waste. He is drawn instead to the strangeness of these forms and the distorted sense of scale. Moving beyond mere description, he embraces the abstract and at times surreal landscape of water transformation.

Subject

• Photography of water
• Water > Pictorial works
• Water treatment plants > Pictorial works
• Sewage > Pictorial works
• Sewage
• Water
• Water treatment plants

Genre/Form

• Illustrated works.
• Pictorial works.

Call Number

JQG 19-763

ISBN

• 9781942185550
• 1942185553

OCLC

1089216827

Author

Temkin, Brad, 1956- photographer.

Title

The state of water / Brad Temkin.

Publisher

Santa Fe, NM : Radius Books, [2019]

Distributor

New York : D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers

Manufacturer

Verona Italy : Editoriale Bortolazzi-Stei

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Research Call Number

JQG 19-763