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Title: Gaia I: Journey into Vanishing Worlds by Paige Deponte, Russell A. Mittermeier, Haraldo F. Castro, Mark Berry, Bill Konstant ISBN: 1-891024-15-9 Publisher: Distributed Art Pub (Dap) Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $65.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: The Beauty of Biodiversity
Comment: A lovely yet disturbing record of endangered wildlife and habitats from Madagascar to Hawai'i. DePonte opted to shoot in black and white to starkly depict the fragility of these lands, toning the prints cappuccino to further suggest these worlds are disappearing into memory. Her pictures are accompanied by haunting poetic narratives by Berry, who joined DePonte on the trip.
There are images of great beauty - a tiny lemur, head in sharp focus, body blurred, depicting nature's fierce will to survive. A young woman floating in water through a track of sunlight, the reflection of a cottony cloud wafting towards her. But there are also photos that echo the ecological alarms of the text, such as a rancher marching skinny-haunched cattle across a burned-out Amazon landscape. Then there's DePonte's stylistic innovation - nudes who "are posed to blend into environment to show how small and vulnerable we are compared to Mother Nature, who will lash back at us." Women crouch in submission or emerge from the rocks. A male nude grasps a huge tree like a newborn clinging to its mother, to the words "Embrace this miracle, grow strong within earth." Image and verse suggest we are one with nature and in losing nature we destroy ourselves.

Rating: 5
Summary: Breathtaking
Comment: One of the most insightful, beautiful books I have ever seen. The photographs are haunting and captivating at the same time. This is a wonderful gift to help educate on the demise of the rainforest. Looking through this book, one journeys to places where scientist warn that civilized man may first comprehend the most tragic loss of living creatures since the demise of the dinosaurs. Images and verse strengthen our connection to Gaia, Earth's natural mantle, while the fate of that living fabric remains uncertain.

Global Art In Action, Inc. published this book to increase public-awareness of the current ecological crisis, to help re-establish human ties to the Earth, and to raise funds needed for Conservation International's "Campaign to save the Hotspots".

I'm glad that I bought this book and highly recommend it.

Rating: 5
Summary: Gaia. Journey into Vanishing Worlds
Comment: Although unpaginated, the book contains over 100 beautiful photographs from Brazil, Hawaii, and Madagascar.

Catches the feeling for the "primitive" peoples still existant in the world.