The Australian Environment: Landscape as Art & Inspiration
Siegfried Manietta
T & G Publishing
English
Text by Ian Lowe, Michele Helmrich and Maurice Ortega.
Hardcover
120 pages
286 x 286 mm
2011
ISBN 9780987079077
The book covers 30 years of consistent landscape and environmental photography. Manietta’s work attempts to transcend the standard collectible tourist photograph, looking instead at documenting underlying structures and qualities, choosing the vernacular, carefully designed and imaged in sympathetic light. He believes it represents a more subtle way of seeing, understanding and appreciating our environment. The images are in 3 chapters (+ epilogue) each representing a particular approach to the environment.
About the Artist
Manietta was born in Germany in 1947 and spent his formative years in Northern NSW and South-east Queensland. He worked commercially across a range of disciplines including retail, commercial / advertising photography, and colour laboratory operations before entering the photography teaching profession in 1978. In addition to teaching photography his research interests include evaluating photographic systems performance, holography and documenting the Australian landscape. His photographic work has been collected and exhibited mainly in Australia and China.
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About the Publisher
Australian-based award winning T&G Publishing specialises in establishing a creative dialogue with the acclaimed photographers they publish. Using the finest design and most advanced printing practices, T&G are committed to showcasing elite photographic art.
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