BOOKS
ENTROPY
A photographic exploration detailing the poetry and fragility of nature amidst the tragedy of climate change
Since 1998, mixed-media artist Diane Tuft has travelled the world recording the environmental factors shaping Earth’s landscape. Entropy is Tuft’s fourth monograph capturing the sublime and awe-inspiring beauty of nature as it is radically transformed under the unrelenting pressures of climate change.
Focused specifically on water as its subject, Tuft contrasts global sea-level rise with water depletion in Utah’s Great Salt Lake. Compelling essays by prominent figures in art and science contributed by Bonnie K. Baxter, Ph.D., Professor of Biology and Director of Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster University and twentieth-century art historian Stacey Epstein, Ph.D. add depth and insight to Tuft’s work and its significance in the context of climate change and the exquisite collection of photographs provide a captivating glimpse into the rapidly changing landscapes of our world.
Weaving passages of haiku with her beguiling photographs, and packaged in a luxe-cloth-wrapped case screenprinted with Tuft’s artwork featuring the Great Salt Lake, Journey’s End, this extraordinary book is a dramatic call to arms inspiring collective action for the critical preservation of nature.
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PRESS:
“The collection shows rainbow-coloured territories permanently scarred by anthropomorphic activities...this makes for a publication that is simultaneously riveting and apt, visually stunning yet disturbing.” — Aesthetica
“This book offers a glimpse of the beauty we may be losing.” — Blind Magazine
“...one of the most captivating books on the market linking fine art with climate change...it is literally one of the few books in the category where every image is a ten out of ten.” — New York Journal of Books
“A stunning photography collection...Entropy is Tuft’s way of encouraging art lovers to engage in conversations about climate change.” — Scientific American
THE ARCTIC MELT: IMAGES OF A DISAPPEARING LANDSCAPE
The Arctic Melt: Images of a Disappearing Landscape (2017) is a brilliant new monograph by universally acclaimed art and environmental photographer Diane Tuft.
Following on the heels of Tuft's previous publication, Gondwana: Images of an Ancient Land, this new book showcases her breathtaking and visually astounding journey to capture the ice in the Arctic Circle before the constant melt renders the once-frozen landscape unrecognizable. The Arctic Melt features photographs of the North Pole, the mountain glaciers of Svalbard, Norway, and the icebergs and ice sheet of Greenland. In a remarkably new take on illustrating the effects of global warming, and with more than fifty stunning photographs, The Arctic Melt chronicles Tuft's passage through the waning tundra as millennia of ice thaw at a faster rate than ever before.
The book includes a foreword by Joe Romm Ph.D., chief science advisor for National Geographic Channel's "Years of Living Dangerously" and Founding Editor of Climate Progress.
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PRESS:
’Before it’s too late’ - CNN
’10 Hauntingly Beautiful Views of the Arctic Melting’ - Architectural Digest
’Stunning Photos Capture An Icy Landscape That’s Rapidly Disappearing’ - Fast Company
’Photographs Document Arctic Change on Our Frozen Seas’ - Hyperallergic
GONDWANA: IMAGES OF AN ANCIENT LAND
After receiving a grant from the National Science Foundation in 2012, art photographer Diane Tuft traveled to Antarctica to study and document the effects of ultraviolet and infrared radiation on the landscape.
Gondwana: Images of an Ancient Land (2014) chronicles the extraordinary results of that expedition, with over 50 stunning images that capture Antarctica’s raw, untouched splendor with colors, textures, and compositions that verge on the surreal.
Named for the megacontinent that once contained what is now Antarctica, Gondwana presents a living reflection of hundreds of millions of years of Earth’s history, a mythical land as it has never been imagined before. The book includes a foreword by Elisabeth Sussman, Curator and Sondra Gilman, Curator of Photography at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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PRESS:
‘Gondwana’ reveals the stunning beauty, mystery of Antarctica’ - Los Angeles Times
‘The Grand and the Details’ - The Coachella Review
‘Diane Tuft's book of Antarctic photographs comes out’ - WSJ
UNSEEN: BEYOND THE VISIBLE SPECTRUM
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
— ALBERT EINSTEIN
UNSEEN: Beyond The Visible Spectrum (2009) is a collection of photographs taken between 1998 and 2008 which features images from the American West, Nepal, North Africa, Iceland and Greenland.
Travelling to remote corners of the world, Diane Tuft has sought to document natural landscapes by exploring their exposure to light frequencies not naturally detected by the human eye. UNSEEN depicts parts of our world that are out in the open but rarely perceived.