Mats Andersson - Nature Diary
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This year, Andersson celebrates his ten-year anniversary as an art- and nature photographer by releasing his most comprehensive photobook to date. The book, “Nature Diary” is a compilation of images dating back to 2009 and until today. In this edition Andersson looks back and reveals some of the driving forces behind his art.
- AuthorMats Andersson
- BindingCloth binding
- Dimensions300x240x38
- Edition1
- EpilogueNina Frydenlund
- ISBN9789163967658
- LanguageEnglish
- LayoutMats Andersson
- Numbers600
- Pages384
- PhotographerMats Andersson
- PrefaceArno Rafael Minkkinen
- Printed byDanagård Litho
- Published Year2018
- PublisherAndersson Consulting AB
- TitleNature Diary
- TranslationNina Frydenlund and Citytext
- Weight2500
Description
Article no.: 9789163967658
Preface by Arno Rafael Minkkinen
"... when Sweden’s Mats Andersson, a most intrepid photographer, travels the world, you could say he doesn’t really shoot with a camera. But what’s the difference then, between his work and that of any other wildlife photographer with a long lens, whether firing remote devices or, in Hollywood-style, snapping shots from an open Land Rover shadowing, say, a herd of antelope on the Serengeti Plains? Breathtakingly beautiful as such images can be – thinking here especially of the majestic animal portraits the photographer Nick Brandt makes – we are nonetheless removed from the animal’s habitat, or put another way, from the world in which the animal sees itself. What Braque’s limitation, if that’s what it was, allowed Mats Andersson to discover was far more expressive and ultimately profound than what most documentary wildlife photography seems to convey.
Using his camera like a pair of binoculars Andersson moves nature photography beyond nature to reveal the power of human imagination to create the possibility of being among the wildlife as if we too lived there – to be a trout under a stream, a horse in the clouds, or an elephant locked at the hip with his or her mate admiring the graphic beauty and texture of lumbering elephantine skin.
Andersson amplifies the sensation of proximity through a kind of kinetic drama in almost every image. Nothing seems to sit still: the wind is always present, light sources are as mysterious and protean as only nature can deliver, thus holding us inside a circle of animalistic awareness. What are these creatures seeing, thinking, and feeling? Working around the clocks of the sun and the moon, as if he never sleeps, Andersson reminds us that humans do not own the planet anymore than any other species on earth does ..." (an excerpt from the preface)
Epilogue by Nina Frydenlund
"... Before I met Mats in person, I was introduced to his imaginative world through his photographs. He was giving a presentation at the Norwegian Nature Photography Festival in Ski in 2015. I was sitting in the first row, totally enchanted, tears running down my cheeks.
As I look back, I am trying to understand what brought me to tears on that particular day, and I have come to realise that there are several things ..." (an excerpt from the epilogue)
"... when Sweden’s Mats Andersson, a most intrepid photographer, travels the world, you could say he doesn’t really shoot with a camera. But what’s the difference then, between his work and that of any other wildlife photographer with a long lens, whether firing remote devices or, in Hollywood-style, snapping shots from an open Land Rover shadowing, say, a herd of antelope on the Serengeti Plains? Breathtakingly beautiful as such images can be – thinking here especially of the majestic animal portraits the photographer Nick Brandt makes – we are nonetheless removed from the animal’s habitat, or put another way, from the world in which the animal sees itself. What Braque’s limitation, if that’s what it was, allowed Mats Andersson to discover was far more expressive and ultimately profound than what most documentary wildlife photography seems to convey.
Using his camera like a pair of binoculars Andersson moves nature photography beyond nature to reveal the power of human imagination to create the possibility of being among the wildlife as if we too lived there – to be a trout under a stream, a horse in the clouds, or an elephant locked at the hip with his or her mate admiring the graphic beauty and texture of lumbering elephantine skin.
Andersson amplifies the sensation of proximity through a kind of kinetic drama in almost every image. Nothing seems to sit still: the wind is always present, light sources are as mysterious and protean as only nature can deliver, thus holding us inside a circle of animalistic awareness. What are these creatures seeing, thinking, and feeling? Working around the clocks of the sun and the moon, as if he never sleeps, Andersson reminds us that humans do not own the planet anymore than any other species on earth does ..." (an excerpt from the preface)
Epilogue by Nina Frydenlund
"... Before I met Mats in person, I was introduced to his imaginative world through his photographs. He was giving a presentation at the Norwegian Nature Photography Festival in Ski in 2015. I was sitting in the first row, totally enchanted, tears running down my cheeks.
As I look back, I am trying to understand what brought me to tears on that particular day, and I have come to realise that there are several things ..." (an excerpt from the epilogue)
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