Richard Mosse - Broken Specter

Richard Mosse
Broken Spectre

Published by Loose Joints, 2022
Size 24.5 x 32 cm
Pages 440 pages
Soft cover
Language English

Devastation in the Amazon rainforest and the climate change triggers it tends to unfold in ways that are too vast to comprehend, too minute to perceive, and too normalized to see. In an attempt to render the scale and urgency of the Amazon's extensive, impending collapse, Richard Mosse's most ambitious work to date employs a dazzling array of photographic techniques. Broken Specter operates on multiple scales: inky, fluorescent microscopic imagery describes the interdependent complexity of the Amazonian biome in scientific detail, while cinematic monochrome infrared scenes track illegal mining, logging and burning, industrial agriculture and indigenous activism. Accompanying these experimental documentary works are Mosse's hypnotically vivid aerial maps, which zoom out and colorize the scale and extent of natural decimation in piercing detail, employing specially-made Geographic Information System (GIS) imaging technology.
- Publisher's statement.

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The devastation in the Amazon rainforest and the climate change it causes tend to unfold in ways too vast to comprehend, too small to perceive, and too normalized to see. In an attempt to convey the scale and urgency of the Amazon's impending collapse, Richard Mosse's most ambitious work to date employs a dazzling array of photographic techniques. Broken Spectre is an immersive 74-minute film that moves between a multitude of ecological narratives, from the topographical to the anthropocentric, and a close examination of non-human violence and survival. Mosse and his team have spent years documenting various fronts of destruction, degradation, and environmental crimes in the Amazon basin and surrounding ecosystems. Accompanying the photographic works, Mosse makes the invisible visible: through multispectral cameras that emulate satellite imaging technology, ultraviolet botanical studies, and distorted heat-sensitive analog film, This Is the Forest in Flames. These experimental documentary works are accompanied by Mosse's hypnotically vivid aerial maps, which magnify and colorize the scale and extent of natural decimation in piercing detail, using GIS (Geographic Information System) imaging technology.
- Text from the publisher.