The last Days of Shishmaref
Dana Lixenberg
Episode Publishers
English, Dutch
Text by Eefje Blankevoort
Softcover
208 pages
166 x 225 mm
2008
ISBN 9059731107
In 2007, Dutch-born, New York-based photographer Dana Lixenberg took her trademark 4-by-5-inch field camera and joined a film crew to document the Inupiaq (Eskimo) shoreline village of Shishmaref, which is disappearing into a rising sea as global warming melts the island’s protective permafrost layer. From these visits comes this unusually powerful book, a hybrid of environmental photography and fine art essay, exploring the relationship between the 600 Inupiaq-people Al Gore has named ”the first climate refugees” – and their unforgiving yet beautiful environment. The text addresses village debate about where to move and the effects of popular Western culture. Lixenberg’s poignant portraiture brings to vivid life the men, women, and children whose identity hangs in the balance.
About The Artist
Dana Lixenburg (Amsterdam 1964) lives and works in New York Amsterdam. She studied photography at the London College of Printing and at The Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Previous independent photo projects include Jeffersonville Indiana (1997-2005) and Imperial Courts (1993- present). Two volumes of her work have been published, united states (Artimo 2001) and Jefforsonville Indiana (Artimo 2005) Her work has been exhibited internationally and has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Vibe (VS), The Telegraph Magazine (UK )and Vrij Nederland (NL) among other publications
About The Publisher
Episode Publishers are Holland’s latest publishers of books on art, culture, architecture and science. Episode books seek to enact, reflect and explore the dialogue between these areas.
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