Balthasar Burkhard: Photographer (English and German Edition)

This is a book about the beauty of nature—its force, silence, and eternal existence—and about cities seen from above as they keep growing, threatening to suffocate us. Swiss photographer Balthasar Burkhard presents work from the last ten years, images from all over the world—from Japan to the United States, from South America to Africa and the European Alps.The photographs are arranged in chapters, eachfo-cussing on one aspect of the world: The Desert, River, Skies, Cities, Landscapes. Together, they add up to a poetic atlas, a vision of the beauties and horrors of the world today. Intense black and white images that can only be created with a photo camera. This is the first comprehensive monograph on this Swiss master of the sublime. A visual vocabulary of the world we live in, meditative and haunting, instilling peace and anxiety at the same time. A masterpiece of landscape and cityscape photography!Enigmatic man, how did you recognize these natural and extravagant images with your gaze oscillating between a body you are discovering and another you aspire to?—Laurent Busine