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Earth From Above comes to NYC
Photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand will bring his work back to the United States - to New York City for the first time in 2010. Aiming to inspire people to think globally about sustainable living, Arthus-Bertrand has been photographing unique views of our planet, seen from the sky, since 1994 - and has produced an exhibit of over 150 4-ft. by 6-ft. prints which will be on display in New York City at the World Financial Center Plaza and along the Battery Park City Esplanade from May 1, 2009 to June 28, 2009, Spring Spring of 2010. When completed in New York City, the Earth From Above exhibit will also move on to California in 2010. Photographs and captions all courtesy of Yann Arthus-Bertrand. [Update 10.08.2008: At the request of the coordinator of Yann Arthus-Bertrand's upcoming exhibit, the number of photographs displayed here has been reduced to ten - Alan Taylor.] (38 10 photos total)
Icebreaker Louis Saint Laurent in Resolute Bay, Nunavut Territory, Canada. [map] (© Yann Arthus-Bertrand)
Worker resting on bales of cotton, Thonakaha, Korhogo, Ivory Coast. Cotton crops occupy approximately 335,000 square klilometers worldwide, and use nearly one quarter of all pesticides sold. [map] (© Yann Arthus-Bertrand) #
Mountainous countryside near Maelifellssandur, Myrdalsjökull Region, Iceland. Once the young lava fields of Iceland cool down, life begins anew little by little. Ice, wind and water flatten and carve out shapes to begin with, then, during the summer, bacteria, lichen and fungi prepare the soil for plants, in particular mosses which adapt to an environment which remains difficult. These plants colonise the most favourable sites and terrain little by little, forming a new ecosystem. [map] (© Yann Arthus-Bertrand) #
"Tree of life", Tsavo national park, Kenya. This acacia is a symbol of life in the vast expanses of thorny savanna, where wild animals come to take advantage of its leaves or its shade. Tsavo National Park in southeastern Kenya, crossed by the Nairobi-Mombasa road and railway axis, is the country's largest protected area (8,200 square miles, or 21,000 square kilometers) and was declared a national park in 1948. [map] (© Yann Arthus-Bertrand) #
Iraqi tank graveyard in the desert near Al Jahrah, Kuwait. This graveyard of tanks will bear witness for many years to the damage that war causes both to the environment and to human health. In 1991, during the first Gulf War, a million depleted uranium shells were fired at Iraqi forces, spreading toxic, radioactive dust for miles around. Such dust is known to have lasting effects on the environment and to cause various forms of cancer and other serious illnesses among humans. [map] (© Yann Arthus-Bertrand) #
Village in the Rheris Valley, Er Rachidia region, High Atlas Mountains, Morocco. Fortified villages are frequently seen along the valley of the Rheris, as they are on most rivers of southern Morocco, inspired by the Berber architecture built to protect against invaders. Today, with the threat of raids now gone, the close clustering of dwellings, small windows, and roofs covering houses and narrow streets serve the purpose of protecting occupants from heat and dust. The flat, connecting roofs also provide a place for drying crops. [map] (© Yann Arthus-Bertrand) #
Road interrupted by a sand dune, Nile Valley, Egypt. Dunes cover nearly one-third of the Sahara, and the highest, in linear form, can attain a height of almost 1,000 feet (300 m). Barchans are mobile, crescent-shaped dunes that move in the direction of the prevailing wind at rates as high as 33 feet (10 m) per year, sometimes even covering infrastructures such as this road in the Nile Valley. [map] (© Yann Arthus-Bertrand) #
Town of Koh Pannyi, Phand Nga bay, Thailand. The south-western coast of Thailand offers a series of beautiful bays lined with many islands. Phang-nga Bay's special formations were created after the thawing of ice 15,000 years ago. Rising waters then submerged arid calcareous mountains, leaving only their peaks visible to the eye. The bay was turned into a marine park in 1981. One of its popular attractions is the village of Koh Panyi, which was built on piles two centuries ago by Muslim sailors coming from Malaysia. The inhabitants make a living via traditional fishing and tourism. Preserved by its configuration, the bay floor of Phang-nga Bay suffered much less from the tsunami of December 26, 2004 than nearby sites. [map] (© Yann Arthus-Bertrand) #
Icebergs and an Adelie penguin, Adelie Land, Antarctica. Antarctica, the sixth continent, is a unique observation point for atmospheric and climatic phenomena; its ancient ice, which trapped air when it was formed, contains evidence of the Earth's climate as it has changed and developed over the past millions of years. [map] (© Yann Arthus-Bertrand) #
A whale swims off the Valdes peninsula, Argentina. After summering in the Arctic, whales return to the southern seas each winter to reproduce. From July to November, whales mate and bear their young along the coasts of the Valdes Peninsula in Argentina. Until the 1950s, this migratory marine mammal was extensively hunted for its meat and the oil extracted from its fat, which brought it to the edge of extinction. Protective measures were adopted after international attention was focused on the problem in 1937. In 1982 a moratorium was declared on whale hunting for commercial purposes, and in 1994 the southern seas became a whale sanctuary. After decades of protection, 7 of the 13 whale species, of which only a few thousand remain (10 to 60 times fewer than in the early 20th century), are still endangered. [map] (© Yann Arthus-Bertrand) #
Update 10.08.2008: At the request of the coordinator of Yann Arthus-Bertrand's upcoming exhibit, the number of photographs displayed here has been reduced to ten. Please visit Yann Arthus-Bertrand's site for many more photos - Alan Taylor.
More links and information
Earth From Above USA - Directory for upcoming USA exhibition tour
Earth From Above NYC - Outdoor Exhibition from May 1 - June 28, 2009
Yann Arthus-Bertrand - photographer's site
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TRULY AWSOME!!!!! THIS IS WHAT YOU CALL FANTABULOUS .THANKS FOR SHARING THESE PICTURES WITH THOSE OF US WHO DO NOT HAVE THE
CHANCE TO SEE THIS IN PERSON.
great pictures! :)
Excellent breath-taking pictures of mother nature.
Wonderful pictures!! Truely amazing!!!
Beautiful photos. Thanks for that. Thanks too, to the majority of intelligent folks in our wonderful country who had the great and good sense to vote for a beautiful and decent human being, our new president :Barack Obama. Bless him and his family and send him all of your good wishes and hopes for his term of office and for our country.
I don't know if there is a G-d or not. Nor do I care. I wish for peace, tolerance and a return to the America I remember. No more haters, pride for everyone and a sense of "Yes Indeed We Can and Will!"
I only hope Miss Barbara is right
Doctor John
Why do you people turn nice photos into political or religious statements? I do not understand. Just enjoy the damn photos.
Allah be praised.
NOW I KNOW THERE'S A GOD!!!!!!
Amazing, i don't have words to telll
Yes, it is very beautiful. As thousands of thousands other things on the planet. Yet it is sad, that all of it could be destroyed and probably will be destroyed by human's ignorance. :-(
We choose to live like pigs, forget what and who The Man and his dignity really is, and then comfort ourselves with such silly sad products like these pictures... Praising nature, the subject which we in real life either abandoned or actively destroy, all for the sake of our love for city life; praising the author for it. But what does he really do? Mr Arthus-Bertrand sells his hobby îð job as "art", making unabashed political comments, selling his ignorance wrapped in a politically correct cliché, and forcing us to believe in his environmental concern. This all while he has been consuming thousands and thousands and thousands of gallons of fuel to fulfil his sad, void hobby. This is actually a form of a tourism which pays this smart tourist back in two ways: selling his so-called "art" to fly even more again-and-again around the globe, polluting the air more than 99% of people who watch these photos or never take photos, and, secondly, by pumping up his ego through a lie that he has been, oh gosh, an artist and environmental activist in one! A cheap trick, but very costly for the nature. Or for the “GoodPlanet”, whatever globalist clan may stand behind it. Even if he is only a professional aerial photographer, he is pretending to be much more than that.
This "art" does strike our love for the Creator and his Creation, but how? Merely exploiting the qualities which already abundantly exist outside these shots. Capitalizing on the grand subjects which are infinitely more stunning and beautiful than the photos of Mr Arthus-Bertrand. But doing so, reducing the reality, Mr Arthus-Bertrand remarkably shows off his very soul: the pictures are void of the man, or his man, much like his nature, has been reduced to a mere ornament.
Shortly: this modern-time-bluff shows on a deeper level our human fall, the mutual alienation but our estrangement from the nature too. If the looking at these photos was our daily dose of nature, we should do something about it in the first place. Then, don't buy the bogus artist-activist stature of Mr Arthus-Bertrand; think about the real stage behind these shots. Let us all kneel and beg the author: please Yann do stop doing what you have been doing! Try to meet and learn the beauty of the Man! But don’t let him too remain separated from you by a plane’s window or a zoom lens. Make it real, Yann! There are plenty of persons around you, stay with them, stick to them (you may even take your camera with you, but will really do much better to forget it at home). Contact people. Make friends. Help real persons. You won’t have to waste so much fuel, and you will finally fulfil your own faded crave for love. Which all those lonely flights and cold photographs can never satiate…
Has anyone read Genesis 1:1? In the beginning, god created the heavens and the earth.
Amazing the disrespect people give to god these days.
FANTASTIC!
The world is a wonderful place filled with glory and grace. Not all of it is man made; yet it has all of the elements of intelligent design, continuity, function and comprehendability. What is even more amazing is that it was here before we were here. It will also be here long after we are gone despite our destructive nature.
super collection picture
866 needs to chill out
simply SUPERB....
Amazing work, well done. Congrats.
My goodness I never saw photos like this before, very inspiring shots!
I have travelled to various countries and seen beautiful and unique places. But I have always come to the same conclusion " There is no place like home"! Yes this is a big and vast world that can have in some regions harsh conditions that would make it very difficult to live but as the pictures display no man is an island and we need one another dispite our differences. After viewing the pictures I feel very blessed to live where I do; with good friends and family. Thank you for the viewing which makes me appreciate where I live even more with clean food, good medical facilities and other human support to enjoy this beautiful life in the world we live. Always take the time to Enjoy; as I have with these pictures and the comments that made me laugh even despite the differences as you have shown through your pictures how different and unique the world really is.
Beautiful I enjjoyed it !
nice pics
WoW
It is funny because all these photos are taken of harsh places, harsh conditions, high mortality and westerners are stupid enough to see small beauty before large catastrophe . We all see a beautiful scene from our white horse before we see that 1 in 4 people are HIV positive. you can tell that the guy who is picking the cotton makes pennies an hour.
#866 You must like to hear yourself talk, do you?
Wooooooooooow! Not a sound ... just a smile ... and dream, dream, dream ... shuuuuuuuuut!
I agree with 871 that 866 should take a PILL maybe take 2 PILLS and CHILL out maybe he has ties with GREENPEACE or another tree hugger association i feel he has nothing better to do with his SAD life ,and complain how others enjoy LIFE.
Yes beautiful photos, but I too was puzzled by the inclusion of the photo of the tanks and the comments about the gulf war in the midst of all this beauty. I understand that Yahn has somewhat of a political agenda (many of the posters it seems as well) but since he was so close and the subject has been broached...he just as easily could have taken some aerial photos of the devastation of the Tigris and Euphrates alluvial salt marsh eco system, thanks to Saddam.
nice!!!!!
i agree with #791 and there IS a God otherwise how could all these BEAUTIFUL pictures be here? the photoghraphers are amazing!
.....Wuall......These pic is WANBDERFULLLLLLLL...I'm from brazil and see yours fhotos is perfect....
Good work
kisses
Amazing..great photos ! thanks a lot for sharing..
And He's created all in His Divine Wisdom... May we someday prove worthy of the gift, given to us by our Creator... For it is not the world that we inherit from our ancestors, but the world that we borrow from our children that we see around us, and we destroy it more everyday... I hope one day we will open our eyes and look around us. It has been said, that when the last tree has been cut down, the last river is poisoned, the last fish is dead, then man will realize that money cannot be eaten...
Unbelievable!!! Too Great
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo my god wthat the hell is that this is imposialbe and now after u seen that u can now say how is god can be able to make any thing and thx very mush about the picture it give us more information about he world
WHO CAN CREATE LIKE THIS???????????
GOD
great project.
auf jeden Fall enorm beeindruckend!! Vielen Dank an den Künstler!
hi nice going into all the coments AFTER sliding the foto's. Men or mankind can interpret so many different thoughts watching the above n then give their comments .the photographs are brillliant. some of them, (man made disaters) which spoil the asthetics of God made earth, should not be there in the first place but reminds us of what went wrong lets do something to stop this brutality.
shachindra d naithani INDIA
I never tired to see the resplandent imagery. Its so good wake-up and look over the fotos. Is true indescribable! January 2, 2009.
superb
ABSOLUTELY AWESOME PHOTOS!
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(OMG what the freak thats so cool im going to save them in my picture saving folder n my sister is saying that this work is awesome yo people cool work keep it up i want to see more yo.......n due's all of u people great work.)
i love these pics
OMG GR8 FOTOS MAKES ME WANT TO GO OUT AND FIND SOMEONE TO LOVE
cool
WOW
cool
fishunr, the melting of the ice 15,000 years ago was clearly George Bush's fault.
These pictures truly made me realize that God created our earth to be beutiful and we as people should respect, care for and protect what we have and stop the wars so that all of future generations to come will love it too and not have to look at this as only the past war zone. God help us.
Life is beautiful, if you know where to look! Great pics.
no words simply....mindblowing!!
wow those pictures where so cool and real
Exceptionnel, je reviendrai souvent sur votre site .
wow that was awesome!!!!!1
WOW
wow... there is no word to find expain this photographs. really amazing.
What a divinely wonderful earth we live on. Thank you for sharing this awesome panorama with us. Our GOD is an awesome GOD indeed!
Picture is truly worth thousand words! Please do conduct your exhibitions in India sometime.
#8 is so powerfull!
awesome and most beautiful truly a breath taken. This beauty, that we all live and breath, has an amazing, and unforgetable sight. That is so powerful. And it sure is God indeed awesome word.
Wow! These pictures are outstanding.
Surely this is proof that the Yellow Monkey Fairy God exists. How could something so amazing come into being without His help. It says in my diary, page 1: "And so the Yellow Monkey Fairy God created all heaven and earth in 8 days and 3 hours, with two tea breaks per day." Surely, the writings in this book and then these photos are insurmountable proof that the YMFG exists.
Seriously, though. Great photos. I suggest people 'Google' the photographer and see some of his other work.
nice .............................pic
wonderfull picture
awe-inspiring !! daroon !!
Indefatigable to see the pictures. Amazing . All to prude look many time. Make good the human metabolism.
Absolutely AWESOME photos ! Amazing talent photographer has , To have done such EXCELLENT PHOTOGRAPHY !!
TRULY BEAUTIFUL
Unbelievable!!
It is to inform you that these are really very intresting picture and the most important thing is that the all of them are not artificial they are natural.....
Our world is a magical, mythical dream - a dream we are all co-creating and sharing and thank you to Yann Arthus-Bertrand who captures it so exquisitely for us to remember.
I notice all of these shots are from the air. Makes me wonder how much oil and gas and pollution was caused in making this. How much damage from fossil fuel use in getting to the locations?
This is the damage Gore and Obama have warned us about, yet it keeps going on so we humans can have fun and ego satisfaction.
Think of all the money and resources that were wasted on this "hobby". Think of all the children and poor who need housing, food, health care and then look at these useless pictures and ask....why the waste when so many are in need.
My 2 favorites are the worker in the cotton in the Ivory Coast and the little island village in SW Thailand. The captain in the 2nd picture is wrong though. The Earth is only about 6,000 years old, it was created by God just the way He wanted it, and there never was an ice age or any of this other kind of nonsense that we have been indoctrinated with in public schools.
Awesome beauty and a great perspective... Please consider that these views were all taken from the air.... As a pilot I think we should all realize that flight is a gift and it opens ones eyes and minds to vistas and perspectives not available
from lesser altitudes. Thanks to all the pilots, photographers and the persistence of those who made this perspective possible.
too gud....amazingg
great pictures!
The pictures are great!!! Thank you for sharing them with the world.
It is something Amazing . I gives a serene feeling to every viewer. I wish to see more often such natures beautiful pictures.
All of these pictures are simply amazing! My friend and I marvled at each one! These pictures are a way to let you know to keep our Earth safe and sound. Happy Earth Day, everyone! Reduce, reuse, and Recycle. =]
THANK YOU SO MUCH , THAT WAS AMAZING!!!!!
it's beyond of my expectation as an artist. yann you have done great job .
my salute to u.
my dear like to paint on canvas of this unseen part of our plante. really it is inspiring me. u can touch me - ajay.chakradhar@gmail.com.
ajay chakradhar ,artist from india
The pictures are amazing and awsome.It is the nature of God. Physical eyes can only see visible natutre as we have seen in this...but God is an invisible supernatutre as our invisible CONSCIENCES.
How beautifull this earth just as how beautiful our CONSCIENCES are,this is our THIRD EYES.THAT MOST OF US WHO DENY TO LOOK INWARD OURSELVES to see how is this . What is the TREE OF LIFE...the tree of life is a connection between GOD,NATURE and HUMAN CONSCIENCES.
Thinhk about this.
Oh what wonderful picture view!
I never see before
Any cameara can shoot anything , but you need an eye to see.
The eye of Yann Arthus-Bertrand are indeed above this earth.
Good Work Dude ...
wow - THANKS - after a difficult day, it's nice to smile and feel good about our tiny wonderful little ball of life
seriously inspiring! The chemical pollution the tanks are giving are indeed toxic!!!
Breath taking!!!
Importantes imagenes, necesarias pues nos permiten visualizar la realidad y reflexionar, van mas alla de la belleza estetica. La imagen dicen mas que estas palabras, todo esta en el accionar desde donde nos encontremos...saludos desde Perú.
Il faut qu'il fasse la meme chose mais a l'envers cette fois,prendre des photos extremement chauquante pour plus sensibiliser,les gens ont plus tendance a reagir lorsqu'il sont choqué ...
I have no reservation to say its really a good job you are doing for the earth, for us.
Helt suveräna bilder!!
i loved the pictures. they were so cool. my favorite one was the person on the white flower looking things.
I didn't know that boats can break ice.
WOW ! Those are amazing pictures ! I wish I could have seen them in person !
~Lexie
that very nice frome you I hop you be stay fowerd
good luck
cheers
928 and 866 are right. The photographer is just another Al Gore type. Do as I say, not as I do.
It's so predictable. You show impressive photos of the earth and religious fanatics see this as a proof of the existence of God and start yapping about it.
I really like these photos. They're not just trying to impress. They all have a kind of sensitivity that I like.
lmao 866 wrote an essay, relax lol
amazing pictures though