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“As a kind of time-traveling expeditionist — a chrononaut? —Sussman lets us drink from primeval wells. One of the great satisfactions of her book is that it allows us to peer at the almost eternal even as we’re mired in a culture quick to praise the new and ephemeral.” (New York Times)“The Oldest Living Things in the World serves us the humbling profundity and pathos of things that live almost forever. We see our abstract selves and feel the terrible bludgeon of that which we cannot have and are fated only to behold. Rachel Sussman brings you to the place where science, beauty, and eternity meet.” (Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine)“The Oldest Living Things in the World adds in dramatic manner a fascinating new perspective―literally, dinosaurs―of the living world around us.” (Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University)“Contemplate life through the time scale of The Oldest Living Things, and you'll find your mind expanded and heart inspired. I'm thrilled to see Rachel's powerful TED talk develop and deepen into this captivating book. “ (Chris Anderson, TED curator)“Longevity means continuity. Long-lived people connect generations for us. Really long-lived organisms, like the ones Sussman has magnificently collected photographically, connect millennia. They put all of human history in living context. And as Sussman shows, they are everywhere on Earth. This book embodies the Long Now and the Big Here.” (Stewart Brand, cofounder, The Long Now Foundation)“Something astounding happens when Rachel Sussman photographs the most ancient organisms to be found across our planet. A fraction of a second of time in her photographic exposures animates forms that have evolved across nature's deep time to create a profound experience of being alive. Sussman's ten-year investigation of the symbols of the earth's ecology is rigorous and exploratory, realized with such generosity to the reader and her ambitions make an impossibly vast subject both felt and understood.” (Charlotte Cotton, author of The Photograph as Contemporary Art)“I am in awe―awe staring at my planet's old sages, who know the way things were, will be, and should be―awe when I appreciate Rachel Sussman's epic quest to round them all up and her daring in stealing their soul with her photographs.” (Paola Antonelli, senior curator, Museum of Modern Art)“There’s a sense of wonder imbued in these photographs of organisms that seem to be a physical record of time, but there’s also a call to action. Many of these subjects of Sussman’s portraits are under threat from habitat loss or climate change or simple human idiocy.” (Time)“Beautiful and powerful work at the intersection of fine art, science, and philosophy, spanning seven continents and exploring issues of deep time, permanence and impermanence, and the interconnectedness of life. With an artist’s gift for ‘aesthetic force’ and a scientist’s rigorous respect for truth, Sussman straddles a multitude of worlds as she travels across space and time to unearth Earth’s greatest stories of resilience, stories of tragedy and triumph, past and future, but above all stories that humble our human lives.” (Brain Pickings)“The series, and now book, is part art, part science, and part travelogue, but the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Because whether you look at these as documentary photography or scientific snapshots of millennia-old species that are now being threatened by the looming specter of climate change, there’s something in this book for everyone.” (PetaPixel)

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About the Author

Rachel Sussman is a contemporary artist based in Brooklyn. Her photographs and writing have been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, and NPR’s Picture Show. She has spoken on the TED main stage and at the Long Now Foundation, is a MacDowell Colony and NYFA Fellow and is a trained member of Al Gore’s Climate Reality Leadership Corps. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in the US and Europe, and acquired for museum, university, corporate, and private collections. She is fiscally sponsored by the Brooklyn Arts Council. To make 100% US tax-deductible donation to support her ongoing work, please visit: http://rachelsussman.com/donate

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Product details

Hardcover: 304 pages

Publisher: University of Chicago Press; 1st Edition edition (April 14, 2014)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 022605750X

ISBN-13: 978-0226057507

Package Dimensions:

11.7 x 10.2 x 1.1 inches

Shipping Weight: 4.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.6 out of 5 stars

115 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#376,432 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

I agree with the other two reviewers who gave this book five stars, but I don't think they touched on what was so meaningful to me about the book. The photography is good, even though many of the subjects don't really lend themselves to easy framing or notable settings - try photographing a fungus if you don't believe me. The theme is engaging as well, but what really made this book for me were the stories, thoughts, ponderings that accompany each chapter. Despite writing only about living things over 2,000 years old, Sussman has made this into an intensely personal book, part story, part quest, and all heart. Please read this, you'll be better for having done so.

I haven't yet thoroughly gotten into this book, but after a quick half hour with it I'm satisfied and impressed. While it would be understandable for Rachel sussman to consider this a finished project I was happy to see that it may well continue, and would look forward to any more material released from this project. I love the images, some may not find them impressive but having an art degree and having done a fair bit of photography myself I'm impressed with her ability to capture these images well. With the possible exception of the lichens i would not say that these are "pictures of (trees) (bushes) (mushrooms)". They are more then that. I secretly wish that everyone has a copy of this book, not that everyone would probably enjoy it as I do. It is humbling to see images of things that have lived so long on this planet, and frightening to think about how humans are changing that. I can only imagine that it must have been difficult for her to cross out the age of some of the oldest things on this world, that she has stood in front of, and write deceased. I will share this book with many people

A tree 2000 years old, another a 13,000, and a clonal copse of trees 70,000 years old - or maybe a few hundred thousand. Bacteria somewhere around a half-million years old. Yet odder beings in the thousands to ten-thousand-plus range. If the individual organism isn't at least 2000 years old, it doesn't make the cut.This book is simply awe-inspiring - to be among beings that live such lives, where ice ages might come and go around the one individual. That time scale simply boggles the mind. Then the chill sets in: a few of these beings have died since their pictures were taken. A tree of 3000 years succumbed to fire, another of 13,000 was killed in a construction project. What lived so long can die in minutes, and you can't just plant some seeds and grow a new one, not 13,000 years old. Gone, after all that time, because of natural hazards or human carelessness.And, in the current Great Extinction, we'll lose a lot more, mostly never having known they ever lived. Environmental threats and climate change can move faster than these living things can respond. I find it humbling, too - so few human artifacts or cultures have the power to last as long as these beings have.Although the naturalist who collected these images took care with proper identification, she's not a scientist by trade. She's an artist, a photographer. But she's a part of the scientific venture, too, making it humanly understandable, even personal, and stirring the sense of awe and respect that underlies nearly all scientific research. (I first became aware of this book through a review in Science magazine.) Really, she just proves that the dichotomy of science and art is artificial and arbitrary, more an artifact of the viewer's preconceptions than of the fields themselves. This has my highest recommendation.-- wiredweird

Wow. What a great book of photography! It's really amazingly beautiful to look at! It contains lots of pix of various trees and plants but there being a tree on the cover I figured that would be the case. I mean really, the OLDEST living things on EARTH! Call me strange but I think it's a fantastic study and WELL worth preserving in film because you never know when we'll no longer have these things around, you know? The photographs are beautifully done. Rachel Sussman is one of those rare gifted artists who give photography a good name and that makes me want to learn it myself! She's able to see certain shapes, pick them out and make you see what she sees. SIMPLY AMAZING!

This book, which I bought at full price last year as a birthday present for my husband, has beautiful images and is based on an interesting concept. The writing, however, is rather disappointing, but the absolutely worse thing about the book is the astonishing number of typographical errors it contains. The publisher, CHICAGO UNIVERSITY PRESS, ought to be ashamed! Something went seriously wrong with the copyediting process here.

Beautiful photos, and interesting text. My only complaint is that the print is small and very light, so it is difficult to read without really good light.

Beautiful and informative. I've shared this book with many of my friends and they've all just loved it. I picked it up for myself for the pure enjoyment of the facts it holds and the pictures but it's taken me on quite a journey. The author leans toward evolution - something I just cannot stand behind - but it doesn't take away from the gathered information.

I purchased this book for my office. When it arrived I couldn't put it down. Being a Forester and steward of the land myself, I was thrilled over its content. I loved Rachel's passion in sharing such beauty with the rest of the world.

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