See the World Beautiful

Menke, Anne

ISBN 10: 0983270279 / ISBN 13: 9780983270270

Published by G ED LLC, 2012

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Stunning photography from reknowned photographer Anne Menke.&Uumlber den AutorrnrnAnne Menke lives in both New York City and Sayulita, Mexico when not traveling for work. Her photography has been featured in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: See the World Beautiful
• Publisher: G ED LLC
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0983270279
• ISBN 13: 9780983270270
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Noted photographer Anne Menke has traveled the world on assignment in search of ideal fashion shoot environments for clients including Conde Nast Traveler Elle Esquire GQ Travel & Leisure Vogue and W. In her travels she has often discovered that the environments themselves house the roots and origins of the fashions seen on the runway. with texts by contemporary visionaries along with the author's own introduction and extraordinary images this sensitive insightful work explores the intersection of fashion and culture in the ethnic populations of Asia Latin America Europe Africa and North America. It is a celebration of people places and our perception of art fashion culture and photography in the modern world.

About the Author

Steve Miller is an artist at the forefront of SciArt, whose ongoing interest in the way art and science can illuminate one another has inspired him to create acclaimed paintings, prints, photographs, and sculptures. His work has been reviewed in Le Monde, Art Press, The New York Times, Artforum, La Nouvelle Republique, and Art in America. Always at the cutting edge, Miller has photographed his own blood using a microscopic camera, developed multiple screen printing visualization projects with scientists from Brookhaven National Laboratory, and in his most recent body of work, Health of the Planet, featured the Amazonian flora and fauna in a series of x-ray photographs. This recent work has been shown in galleries around the world. Miller splits his time between New York City and the Hamptons.

Carl Safina has been recognized with MacArthur, Pew, and Guggenheim Fellowships, and his writing has won Orion, Lannan, and National Academies literary awards and the John Burroughs, James Beard, and George Rabb medals. He has a PhD in ecology from Rutgers University. Safina is the inaugural holder of the endowed chair for nature and humanity at Stony Brook University, where he co-chairs the steering committee of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science and is founding president of the not-for-profit organization, The Safina Center. He hosted the 10-part PBS series Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina. His writing appears in The New York Times, Audubon, Orion, and other periodicals and on the Web at National Geographic News and Views, Huffington Post, and CNN.com. He lives on Long Island, New York with his wife Patricia, the two best beach-running dogs in the world, some chickens, a couple of parrots, and Frankie, the kingsnake.