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David McMillan Growth and Decay Pripyat and the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
David McMillan Growth and Decay Pripyat and the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
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As one of the first artists to gain access to “The Zone,” McMillan initially explored the evacuated areas with few constraints and in solitude, save for an occasional scientist monitoring the effects of radioactivity. Returning year after year enabled him to reit the sites of earlier photographs―sometimes fortuitously, sometimes by design―thereby bearing witness to the inexorable forces of nature as they reclaimed the abandoned communities. At times his unhurried approach to picture making led McMillan to look at unassuming subjects, which gave rise to engrossing compositions. Above all, his commitment has been to probe the relentless dichotomy between growth and decay in The Zone.
'When I first ventured to Chernobyl in 1994, the experience was thrilling and totally absorbing. I felt I had found a subject both inexhaustible and consequential. I wanted to make photographs describing something I hadn’t seen before, which had the potential to be simultaneously beautiful and unsettling.' -David McMillan
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
2019-01-16
Publication Date:
2019-01-20
Publisher:
Steidl Verlag
Languages:
Published:
English,
Original:
English
ISBN10:
3958293972
Weight:
2150 g
Height:
270 cm
Width:
310 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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