Fossil Design : Zeichen Versteinerten Lebens / Signs of Petrified Life

Hillert, Ibbekekn (EDT); Ibbeken, Hillert (CON); Keupp, Helmut (CON); zur Lippe, Rudolf (CON); Schoene, Katja (CON)

ISBN 10: 3936681244 / ISBN 13: 9783936681246

Published by Edition Axel Menges, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fossil Design : Zeichen Versteinerten Lebens / Signs of Petrified Life
• Publisher: Edition Axel Menges
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3936681244
• ISBN 13: 9783936681246
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Fossils are the petrified remains of former living organisms. Their systematics and their former living conditions are studied and described in palaeontology. In contrast to this, this book attempts to show the character of these life forms as signs and to pursue the question of whether fossils and representations of fossils can be considered beautiful. For this reason, the pictures' sequence is not based on a palaeontological system of classification, but instead progresses from realistic representations of, for instance, a coral's body in its entirety through ever smaller sectors of the image and details divorced from context to almost abstract images.

About the Author

Until his retirement Hillert Ibbeken was a professor of geology at the Freie Universitat Berlin, but his lifelong occupation has been architectural photography.