Fractal landscapes : from the real world / photographs by Bill Hirst with an introduction by Benoit Mandelbrot.
By: Hirst, Bill
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Contributor(s): Mandelbrot, Benoit B.
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BookPublisher: Manchester : Cornerhouse, 1994Description: 1 v. : ill ; 25 x 33cm + pbk.ISBN: 094879724X (hbk); 094879724X (m); 0948797231 (v) (pbk) .Subject(s): Landscape photography -- Exhibitions | Nature photography -- Exhibitions | Fractals in art | Fractals in art -- ExhibitionsDDC classification: 779.092 HIR
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 779.092 HIR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00052752 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Bridging the divide between art and science, this book presents a powerful visual case for recognising the fractal character of both natural and man-made landscapes. Photographs of complex and intricate landscapes - beautifully printed in tritone - are paired and grouped to demonstrate striking similarities between the large and the small, the natural and the man-made, and between widely separated sites. These similarities are too pervasive and too consistent to be dismissed as coincidental. They are evidence of a previously unsuspected organising process, through which structure and order can spontaneously emerge from chaos - contrary to past notions of entropy. Such ideas are at the heart of the new science of Complexity, in which mankind is fundamentally re-appraising its view of Nature and the origins of life itself.
Exhibition catalogue.
Ill on inside covers.
Bibliography: p. [11].