More than 270 striking black-and-white portraits of all Nobel Prize Winners alive today, such as Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, John M. Coetzee, Roy J. Glauber, James Watson and Jimmy Carter, taken by Berlin photographer Peter Badge. Each photograph is accompanied by a short biography, resulting in a fascinating word/image tableau. With an afterword by Wim Wenders.
The book explains - and illustrates - the difference between coracles on rivers in Wales and England, and looks at the Scottish and Irish versions of the craft, and then at the coracles of Europe, the Middle East, and Asia - especially Vietnam, the only place in the world where coracles are thriving.
World Tour to Nobel Laureates
“Nobel Laureates in Portraits”—for this comprehensive project German photographer Peter Badge has been traveling the world since 2000. More than 400 encounters have now provided him with incomparable insight into the worlds of those who “have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind”—as Alfred Nobel described it in his last will and testament. This book is, however, much more than the mere “making of” of a long-term photographic undertaking. Ingenious Encounters. World Tour to Nobel Laureates reflects on the personalities, achievements and lives of the laureates from a unique perspective, both unusual and fascinating. Badge’s impressive accounts of his experiences have been compiled and penned by Sandra Zarrinbal to create a captivating book that defies categorization—as authentic as a diary, as informative as a work of popular science, as thrilling as an adventure documentary, as touching as a bildungsroman, as amusing as a celebrity biography, and as poetic as Nobel himself preferred to approach the world.
In 2000 Peter Badge embarked on a long-term project to photograph every living Nobel Laureate. Commissioned by the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D. C., as well as the Deutsches Museum and co-funded by the Klaus Tschira Stiftung, this project has taken Badge across the globe, to the laureates’ homes, labs and working places as well as holiday destinations. In this remarkable array of portraits of some of the world’s most accomplished individuals, the photographer shows us the faces of impressive personalities whose scientifi c expertise provides the bedrock of their teaching. As well-respected representatives of the scientifi c community they stand for continuing study and the addressing of universal issues. Their bright eyes convey their shared strength and revealtheir endeavours.
Who are the faces behind chemistry? This volume presents portraits of all living Chemistry Nobel Laureates by the acclaimed photographer Peter Badge. Printed in high quality with an introduction by Nobel Laureate Aaron Ciechanover, the book invites reflection on the human aspect of science and on the personalities behind the most important developments in chemistry in the last decades. As a celebration of the chemist it is the ideal book to dignify the international year of chemistry.
Photographs of Nobel laureates. text in English and German.