Cutter

 

A sharp instrument removes from printed images all that might be threatened with extinction or that has already become extinct: glaciers, seabeds, natural panoramas, flowers, plants, animals. By subtracting elements in each frame as part of a sequenced whole, new relationships begin to emerge. Varied and at times contrasting attitudes  are echoed, such as a careful dig of botanist, or from a cynic surgeon at work to a savage tourist at play.

 

From Robinson Crusoe's Deserted Island to the Equatorial Forest, from Nature's sound explosion to  Flowers and Plants' perfect design, from Deserts to the Alps, we are looking at the wonders of the Earth  fascinated and dazed at once. Maybe we are all tourists admiring the Himalaya with a cheeseburger in our hands.

 

It is not without any doubt that a nature lover introduces the wonderful pictures contained in this book,  guessing wether it is indeed necessary to add a textual description to accompany all these images which - chosen based on aesthetics - were meant for readers particularly sensitive to beauty. Will anyone point out that the identity of the portrayed creatures is afterall irrelevant just like it is their role or placement in the wilderness? Their only goal and purpose is to generate the exact same reaction that the sight of a perfect art masterpiece creates in the viewer, the intellectual excitement caused by a harmonic placement and distribution of weights, visual balance. (J. Forest, Meraviglie dei Fondali Marini, Ist. Geografico De Agostini Novara, 1958)