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American photographer Emmet Gowin (b. 1941) is best known for his portraits of his wife, Edith, and their family, as well as for his images documenting the impact of human activity upon landscapes around the world. For the past fifteen years, he has been engaged in an equally profound project on a different scale, capturing the exquisite beauty of more than one thousand species of nocturnal moths in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, and Panama. These stunning color portraits present the insects - many of which may never have been photographed as living specimens before, and some of which may not be seen again - arrayed in typologies of twenty-five per sheet. The moths are photographed alive, in natural positions and postures, and set against a variety of backgrounds taken from the natural world and images from art history. Throughout Gowin's distinguished career, his work has addressed urgent concerns. The arresting images of Mariposas Nocturnas extend this reach, as Gowin fosters awareness for a part of nature that is generally left unobserved and calls for a greater awareness of the biodiversity and value of the tropics as a universally shared natural treasure.

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Book category Books in English Lifestyle, sport & leisure Natural history Wildlife: general interest

• Full title: Mariposas Nocturnas
• Subtitle: Moths of Central and South America, A Study in Beauty and Diversity
• Author: Emmet Gowin
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 144
• EAN: 9780691176895
• ISBN: 0691176892
• ID: 16004502
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Weight: 1846 g
• Dimensions: 366 × 293 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. September 2017

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