Photo books
Image collections published by international publishers, winners of numerous awards
Bernhard received the renowned Hasselblad Master Award back in 2001. His photo book “Geoart – Kunstwerk Erde” was awarded with the prestigious Kodak Photo Book Price.
His first illustrated books – Volcanoes (1994), Icy Worlds (1996) and Geoart Germany (2003) – were each voted ‘most beautiful science book of the year’ by a jury of renowned German science journalists.
This was followed by publications with the international art book publishers PHAIDON/London-New York and PRESTEL/Munich-New York – including the photo book EARTHSONG in 2004, which was published in 6 languages and made Bernhard’s photographic work known worldwide.
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The ice of the Alps – With spectacular aerial photographs from the past 30 years, this photo book shows how climate change is altering the Alps – the diversity of forms being lost in the glacier landscapes, but also what is being created by the disappearance of the ice.
Details:
224 pages, 185 color illustrations, Rother Bergverlag, Munich 2022, German only, Price: 49,90 Euro
Press comments:
“Bernhard Edmaier documents the retreat of the glaciers with expressive photographs – a sensually designed factual report that is well worth seeing.” Süddeutsche Zeitung
“Bernhard Edmaier shows the icy diversity and at the same time makes climate change visible. … With this visual declaration of love, he makes us aware of the loss of diversity we are facing due to the melting and disappearance of glaciers.” Stern
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WATER
Water has left its mark on our planet as no other element since the Earth’s creation to this day. This book of images shows water as a destructive, transporting as well as creative force in its many forms: liquid, vaporized in the clouds and frozen to ice. The motifs, mostly aerial images, have been shot on all of the five continents.
Details
240 pages, 220 colour images, Prestel Publishers Munich/New York 2015, appeared in German (“WASSER”) and English. Price: € 59.
Press commentary
“Visually stimulating and incredibly powerful – WATER belongs to the best Photography Books of 2015.”
THE DAILY BEAST / Newsweek, USA
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Earth Art –
Colours of the Earth
Inspired by colour analyses created by world famous natural science scholars such as Isaak Newton or Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Bernhard Edmaier presents a very exceptional view of the Earth and its amazingly colourful surface.
Details
220 pages, 160 color images (mostly aerial images), Phaidon Press London 2013, English only
Press commentary
“Ravishes the eye …. The effect is overwhelming.”
New York Times
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Earth on Fire
This photo book visualizes how volcanism shapes our earth. Bernhard Edmaier has explored a wide variety of volcanic and plate tectonic phenomena – fire-spewing volcanoes and lava flows, dark ash clouds and bubbling mud pots, geysers, bright yellow sulphur crusts and colorful acid lakes …
Details
220 pages, over 200 colour images, published by Phaidon Press London 2009, English only.
Press commentary
“From close up or far away, amazing volcano photos….” Smithsonian.com
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Kunstwerk Alpen
In his book “Kunstwerk Alpen” (“The Alps – A Work of Art”) Bernhard Edmaier does not show just a collection of idyllic landscapes, but focuses on the motifs and settings which tell the dramatic story of the Alps’ emergence such as giant folds in steep rock formations, striking mountain peaks, wild Alpine rivers, narrow gorges, bizarre glacier tongues and much more.
Details
224 pages, 188 color images, published by Bergverlag Rother, Oberhaching, Germany, 2012. Available in German and French (Title: “Alpes – L’Art et la Matière,” published by Glenat, October 2012).
Press commentary
“… Geography – exciting and beautiful. Yes, so beautiful that one is completely mesmerised by the images and cannot help wanting to look at them and read their story again and again.” Neue Zürcher Zeitung
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Patterns of the Earth
This book shows 400 images of multifaceted structures of the Earth surface classified according to shapes: circles, ribbons, stripes, cracks, dots, grids, coils and other forms. Bernhard Edmaier makes it possible for the viewer to see the various landscape components anew as part of a greater and complete whole. Seen from that perspective, rivers turn into winding ribbons, rock formations into stripes, and volcano craters or islands into circles.
Details
240 pages, 400 colour images (mostly aerials), hardback, published by Phaidon 2007 in English, French and German
Press commentary
“Bernhard Edmaier has given us a new perspective to natural landscapes … the deep beauty of these scenes cries out for stewardship …” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in LIFE Magazine, USA
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Earthsong
Art meets science in “Earthsong.” This is a spectacular collection of breathtaking aerial photographs of the Earth’s surface. By celebrating the Earth’s natural beauty, “Earthsong” documents the threatened wild landscapes of our planet and is ideal for those interested in preservation and environmental issues as well as photography. The book is divided into four sections: Water, Barren, Desert and Green. On its pages anything is possible – glaciers accompany oceans, dunes appear next to submarine deserts and floating meadows meet barren steppes.
Details
232 pages, 240 color images (mainly aerials), published by Phaidon Press, London 2004 in German, English, French, Italian, Spanish and Japanese.
Press commentary
“… aerial photography at its sexiest …. landscape photography at its most remarkable …. a sound primer in geology and environmental ecology.” Ag. Winter UK
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