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Terraria gigantica : the world under glass
- Title
- Terraria gigantica : the world under glass / photographs by Dana Fritz ; introduction by William L. Fox ; essay by Carrie Robbins ; epilogue by Rebecca Reider.
- Author
- Fritz, Dana, 1970-
- Publication
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2017.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | TR721 .F758 2017q Oversize | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 75 pages : color illustrations; 28 x 33 cm
- Summary
- In a new approach to environmental photography, Dana Fritz explores the world's largest enclosed landscapes: Arizona's Biosphere 2, Cornwall's Eden Project, and Nebraska's Lied Jungle and Desert Dome at the Henry Doorly Zoo. In these vivaria, plants are grown amid carefully constructed representations of the natural world to entertain and educate tourists while also supporting scientific research. Together, these architectural and engineering marvels stand as working symbols of our complex relationship with the environment. Giant terraria require human control of temperature, humidity, irrigation, insects, weeds, and other conditions to create otherwise impossible ecosystems. While technical demands inform the design of these spaces, the juxtapositions of natural and artificial elements generate striking visual paradoxes that can go unnoticed. Here Fritz turns away from visitors' prepared sight lines, revealing alternate views that dispel the illusion of natural conditions. Inviting questions about what it means to create and contain landscapes, Terraria Gigantica inspires contemplation of our ecological future. --Publisher description.
- Subject
- Fritz, Dana, 1970- Photographer
- Fritz, Dana, 1970-
- Biosphere 2 (Project) > Pictorial works
- Eden Project (St. Austell, England) > Pictorial works
- Henry Doorly Zoo > Pictorial works
- Biosphere 2 (Project)
- Eden Project (St. Austell, England)
- Henry Doorly Zoo
- Nature photography
- Botanical gardens > Pictorial works
- Glass gardens > Pictorial works
- Terrariums > Pictorial works
- nature photography
- Botanical gardens
- Glass gardens
- Terrariums
- Genre/Form
- Pictorial works.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Introduction : terraria gigantica, the world under glass 2007-2011 / William L. Fox -- Color plates -- World under glass : Dana Fritz and the photography of terraria / Carrie Robbins -- Epilogue / Rebecca Reider.
- ISBN
- 9780826358738
- 082635873X
- 9780826358745 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2016055424
- OCLC
- ocn965781477
- 965781477
- SCSB-8932856
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library