Hear photographer Diane Tuft discuss her fourth monograph, Entropy, which is a continuation of her travels around the world recording the environmental factors shaping the Earth’s landscape under the unrelenting pressures of climate change, in this case focusing specifically on water as its subject, contrasting global sea-level rise with water depletion in Utah’s Great Salt Lake. Joining Tuft in conversation will be art historian Dr. Stacey Epstein and climate scientist Dr. Allegra Le Grande, who specializes in discovering details about the hydrologic cycle in the past and present, in the hopes of improving our ability to understand this part of the climate in the future. The panel will discuss the importance of visualizing and studying the effects of climate change in hopes to better understand the pressures our ecosystems face.
The conversation will be followed by a book signing of Entropy (Phaidon, $80) with Diane Tuft in the ICP shop.
About the Book
A photographic exploration detailing the poetry and fragility of nature amidst the tragedy of climate change.
Since 1998, mixed-media artist Diane Tuft has traveled the world recording the environmental factors shaping Earth’s landscape. Entropy is Tuft’s fourth monograph capturing the sublime and awe-inspiring beauty of nature as it is radically transformed under the unrelenting pressures of climate change.
The exquisite collection of photographs provide a captivating glimpse into the rapidly changing landscapes of our world. Tuft focuses specifically on water as its subject, contrasting global sea-level rise with water depletion in Utah’s Great Salt Lake. Compelling essays by prominent figures in art and science contributed by Bonnie K. Baxter, Ph.D., Professor of Biology and Director of Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster University and twentieth-century art historian Stacey Epstein, Ph.D. add depth and insight to Tuft’s work and its significance in the context of climate change.
Weaving passages of haiku with her beguiling photographs, Tuft's newest monograph is packaged in a luxe-cloth-wrapped case screenprinted with her artwork Journey’s End featuring the Great Salt Lake. An extraordinary book, Entropy is a dramatic call to arms inspiring collective action for the critical preservation of nature.
Diane Tuft exhibits and lectures at institutions across the globe. Her work is included in such esteemed collections as the Whitney Museum of American Art; Nevada Museum of Art; International Center of Photography; and Parrish Art Museum, as well as many private collections. Tuft’s previous publications include UNSEEN: Beyond the Visible Spectrum (2009); Gondwana: Images of an Ancient Land (2014) and The Arctic Melt: Images of a Disappearing Landscape (2017). Tuft is also an award-winning producer of multiple short films, including Coastal Requiem (2019). She lives and works in New York City.
Dr. Stacey Epstein is an art historian specializing in twentieth-century modern art and holds a Ph.D. in her area of expertise. She is the principal of the art advisory firm, Stacey Epstein Fine Art, which offers strategic counsel to private clients, corporate art collections, museums, artists and art Foundations. Over the last three decades Dr. Epstein has curated, lectured and published extensively on the subject of modern art.
Dr. Allegra LeGrande of NASA GISS (Goddard Institute for Space Studies) received her PhD in Earth Sciences from Columbia University in 2007. Since then, she has been working with atmospheric models and methods for reconstructing past climate. Her research focuses on discovering details about the hydrologic cycle in the past and present, in the hopes of improving our ability to understand this part of the climate in the future.
