The Jungle Book: Contemporary Stories of the Amazon and Its Fringe

Awards:   Winner of Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award 2015 (France)
Author:   Yann Gross ,  Daniel Munduruku ,  Arnaud Robert
Publisher:   Aperture
ISBN:  

9781597113823


Pages:   232
Publication Date:   08 September 2016
Format:   Hardback
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The Jungle Book: Contemporary Stories of the Amazon and Its Fringe


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  • Winner of Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award 2015 (France)

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When the Spanish conquistador Francisco de Orellana set out on his search for cinnamon in 1541, he could not have anticipated that his travels would bring him to the bends of the world's longest river: the Amazon. Long a witness to evangelization campaigns, infrastructure development, and natural resource extraction, the river continues to arouse greed, competition, and fascination in its visitors. Following in the footsteps of past expeditions, The Jungle Book is a visual travel diary comprising discreetly staged scenes that reveal the diverse worlds of contemporary Amazonia and its surrounding areas. Photographer Yann Gross worked with different local communities in order to explore their lives in a time of ecological disintegration. Once immersed in their domestic world, the viewer soon forgets romantic clichs of forgotten lands and noble savages, and begins to question the guiding ideals of progress and development that inform escapist fantasies of the global south.

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Author:   Yann Gross ,  Daniel Munduruku ,  Arnaud Robert
Publisher:   Aperture
Imprint:   Aperture
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.50cm
Weight:   0.800kg
ISBN:  

9781597113823


ISBN 10:   1597113824
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   08 September 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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Language:   Delaware

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Yann Gross (born in Vevey, Switzerland, 1981) is a photographer, filmmaker, and designer who graduated from École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne in 2007. Gross has received numerous awards for his work, including the PHotoEspaña Discoveries Week Award (2008), Photography Award at the International Festival of Fashion and Photography, Hyères, France (2010), and the LUMA Rencontres Dummy Book Award (2015). Gross is a member of the international artist collective Piece of Cake and the cofounder of Canal GuaTeKa, an internet channel created for indigenous youth living in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Arnaud Robert is a journalist, writer, and documentary filmmaker and the coauthor of State (2013). Daniel Munduruku is a pioneer of indigenous literature in Brazil, the author of over fifty books, and the president of the Uk'a Institute, House of Ancestral Knowledge in Lorena, State of São Paulo.

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