21-10-2005
It is hard to believe that in our densely populated countryside, one can still find areas which look as if man has never set his foot in them.
[PICTURE SET GEOART DEUTSCHLAND]
To realise his earlier project, GeoArt – Kunstwerk Erde, Bernhard Edmaier set out to look for places on the surface of the earth which have been untouched by human hand and existed in their primordial form of structures and colours for millions of years of the earth’s evolution.
In order to record these images, he travelled to lands cut off from civilisation - Australian and African deserts, the glaciers of Alaska, Greenland and the Alps, volcanic islands and many other locations.
This project spurred him and his spouse, fellow geologist and science journalist, Dr Angelika Jung-Hüttl, to look for such primeval places in Germany, and it proved itself to be worth the effort, although, as he admits, he had to reach a compromise as here humans have busied themselves moulding the landscape for thousands of years, cutting down forests to gain farming land and re-planting them somewhere else, regulating rivers and even levelling mountains in order to win raw materials.
An yet, Germany still has regions left untouched, preserved in their natural state for at least a few hundred years still displaying visible traces of their millions of years old geological past. They have irresistible charm, especially when seen from above. This book is a photographic record of their existence and came into being in 2003.
