Greenland Melting
In 1999, the German photographer Olaf Otto Becker took a picture of a glacier in Iceland for his first book, Under the Nordic Light. When he returned to photograph the same glacier three years later, it was gone.
Becker’s photographs from [his latest] expeditions appear in his latest book, Above Zero, and are now on view in exhibitions in New York City and Copenhagen.
As Eve Bowen notes, Becker’s midnight sun photographs of Greenland’s west coast (left column, above) have the sublimity of 19th century landscape paintings. In his dizzying new photos from the top of the Greenland ice sheet, there’s no frame of reference for scale or distance; no trees, no vehicles, only sky, water, and ice, melting.
At the Amador Gallery in New York through January 9.
Reblogged from The New York Review of Books
