Fazal Sheikh and Terry Tempest Williams: The Moon is Behind Us
$53.27
- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
3 January 2022
Summary
This book is an intimate personal correspondence between two leading political artists at a time of crisis. In the summer of 2020, their collaboration suddenly halted by Covid-19, photographer Fazal Sheikh (born in 1965) and writer, educator and activist Terry Tempest Williams (born in 1955) found themselves 5,000 miles apart, Sheikh in Zurich, Switzerland, Tempest Williams in Castle Valley, Utah. Like so many others, they communicated across the days and nights by text and email, reflecting …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9783958298804 |
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| ISBN-10: | 395829880X |
| Author: | Fazal Sheikh, Terry Tempest Williams, Duncan Whyte |
| Publisher: | Steidl Publishers |
| Imprint: | Steidl Verlag |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 3 January 2022 |
| Weight: | 480g |
| Dimensions: | 138mm x 200mm |
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Critics Review
As much a delight to hold as it is to read… For those familiar with Sheikh’s work the photographs are a self-curated retrospective, but rest assured Williams will present his works as though new to you, seeing things you didn’t know could be found in his pictures.– “Photo Eye”
Fazal Sheikh
Fazal Sheikh is an artist and author of 15 monographs, the majority published by Steidl, and including A Sense of Common Ground, The Victor Weeps, Moksha, Ladli, Portraits and The Erasure Trilogy. His work has been widely exhibited at major institutions including Tate Modern, London; the Metropolitan Museum of Art and United Nations, New York; and the Mapfre Foundation, Madrid. Sheikh is a fellow of the MacArthur, Guggenheim and Fulbright Foundations, and artist-in-residence at the Princeton Environmental Institute.
Terry Tempest Williams is an American writer, educator, conservationist and activist. Her many books include Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, Finding Beauty in a Broken World, When Women Were Birds, The Hour of Land and Erosion: Essays of Undoing. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker and the New York Times, as well as in many anthologies as a crucial voice for ecological consciousness and social change. She is a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and writer-in-residence at the Harvard Divinity School.
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