"Trained as a geologist, Mark Klett established his artistic perspective on the Western American landscape as the chief photographer for the Rephotographic Survey Project (1977-79), which rephotographed scenes visited by the first photographic surveys of the West in the 1860s and 1870s. " http://www.mocp.org/collections/permanent/klett_mark.php2) Chris Jordan
I couldn't believe these images based on his previous work. Jordan's constructs are good but I don't like them as much as his straight images - they are more striking with the fact that they are unaltered.
"These photographs of albatross chicks were made in September, 2009, on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking. To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world's most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent. " http://www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/midway/#about
3) Jason DeCaires Taylor
Art is kept in dark, dehumidified and cool areas to be preserved for the generations. Of course it is worth considering that art can be left to be reclaimed by nature. This interaction becomes a very powerful element: instead of meant to represent a point the pieces demonstrate that point. Jason Taylor's work is a good example.
Jason de Caires Taylor’s underwater sculptures create a unique, absorbing and expansive visual seascape. Highlighting natural ecological processes Taylor’s interventions explore the intricate relationships that exist between art and environment. Grace Reef is a series of sixteen figures each cast from the body of a Grenadian woman. Located across an expansive underwater area the work draws marine life to an area that has suffered substantial decimation through sustained storm damage. The work reflects the continuing evolution of the island and its people, revealing itself in dramatic and dynamic ways. The direction and strengths of currents mean that entire sections of the work become covered, hidden and lost. At other times figures emerge and are fully visible. http://www.underwatersculpture.com/pages/artist/about.htm
4) Robert Adams
His work was important within the art history context of the early 1970's and the New Topographics exhibition. This was a shift in people's idea about photography and environment, breaking away from the Ansel Adams' landscapes praising nature. Showing what one does not like became acceptable in art galleries. However, showing the unpleasant and boring soon becomes boring itself. I appreciate his work but cannot really like it.
"Adams explored new housing tracts that were being built along the Colorado Front Range in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The developments filled with people who had migrated west in search of a new Eden, only to discover themselves isolated in an artificial landscape. "People had moved [to Denver] to enjoy nature, but found that nature was mostly inaccessible except on weekends," Adams wrote." http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/adams/
5) Gaston Bachelard
6) Yao Lu
Generally speaking, my works use the form of traditional Chinese painting to express the face of China. Today China is developing dramatically and many things are under constant construction. Meanwhile many things have disappeared and continue to disappear. The rubbish dumps covered with the 'shield', a green netting, are a ubiquitous phenomenon in China. http://www.prixpictet.com/2009/view/533
7) Minoru Yamasaki
8) Michael Wesely
With up to two-year long exposures Michael Wesely documented the construction being done at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin between 1997 and 1999. The project was commissioned by DaimlerChrysler. The images were taken from five different camera positions and transform the chronological sequences of the construction activity into one simultaneous action, whereby an infinite number of individual moments overlap until they form a complex structure of fragments of reality. Before and after fuse together in that the previously, undeveloped horizon is still visible through the newly constructed buildings. http://www.wesely.org/wesely/gruppe.php?var=potsdamerplatz
9) Georgi Danelya
He is director and co-writer of Kin Dza Dza (1986), a sci-fi movie about a desert planet with totalitarian government inspired by the very real vanishing of the Aral sea in the USSR. Kin Dza Dza is an extremely distorted mirror in which Soviet society and environmental disasters are reflected. It is very sarcastic though only those who experienced the regime personally can fully understand it. I also see the movie as a collection of ready made sculptures and junk art.
Georgi Daneliya: 'After my film 'Tears Were Falling', I felt like making something punkish. And I've got an idea - take Stevenson's 'Treasure Island' and place it in outer space: instead of a ship and an island, a rocket and a planet...
Amazon description - http://www.amazon.com/Kin-Dza-Dza-DVDs-Set-LANGUAGE-SUBTITLES/dp/B002NE0EGG
10) Christo and Jean-Claude
Art that uses the land, architecture and resources to create spatial sensations. It is pushed really far with its scale and I truly admire the work. However, is this art politically challenging or more of tourist attraction to generate income? There are people who oppose their work:"An ambitious plan that artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude pursued in Colorado for more than a decade — to cover a six-mile stretch of the Arkansas River with shimmering fabric — has come up against a wellspring of opposition, putting in question a project that local art organizations have hoped will bring the state prestige and millions in tourism dollars. This month the Bureau of Land Management, which is responsible for vetting the $50 million undertaking (funded entirely by private sources), has opened the floor to the public during four meetings. Hundreds of people attended, most of them arguing against going forward with the piece, titled "Over the River." The couple's previous high-profile project, "The Gates," filled New York's Central Park with 7,500 saffron-colored gates, attracting about 4 million visitors to the city and creating a $254 million economic boon. "
Lucie Alig - http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/35543/opposition-mounts-for-christo-and-jeanne-claude-river-project/
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