Vanishing by Antonin Kratochvil de.MO 2004 240pp [ ISBN 0970576838 ]

Vanishing came out in April 2005.
Vanishing is Antonin Kratochvil's fifth book
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Vanishing by Antonin Kratochvil

This book is an insight into what most have no way of seeing.
In a sense it is a pair of eyes.
When we ask one another,
HOW ARE THINGS?
our reply is
a feeling founded on
what we know.

When we answer,
NOT TOO BAD,
that's what
we mean since
that's what we believe to be true.


What you are about to see
may prompt an altogether different responce.
It may shake something inside you?

This project has been a sixteen-year journey to some of those unseen places.


The pictures inside show what might never return.
What the eyes have looked upon may be lost forever.
This book is a tour through
several endangered life-forms.
At present, most of their outcomes hang in the balance,
though for some they hang by a thread.

VANISHING speaks on behalf of life despite man's ever threatening presence.
This body of work offers nothing in the way of answers,
neither is it a sermon in hopes of brigher days.
No, it's intent is to pose that ever-day, run of the mill question.
VANISHING gives those who go about their business,
living their lives,
a chance to look beyond
their worlds and into others.
Perhaps having closed the covers on this
uncommong journey
people in future
may respond
differently to that
question
that they so often hear
and that this book asks once more.

HOW ARE THINGS?

VANISHING by Antonin Kratochvil

Hardcover, 240pp (240 pages)
ISBN 0-9705768-3-8 (or 0970576838 )
file as:
> ECOLOGY . SOCIAL ISSUES
> HISTORY . PHOTOJOURNALISM
US $54.00
CAN $75.00


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