James Balog

James Balog ( born July 15, 1952) is an American wildlife photographer, geoscientists and mountaineer who is known, among other things through publications in the magazines, National Geographic, The New Yorker, Life and Vanity Fair, as well as the documentary Chasing Ice. He founded the Earth Vision Trust with the aim to make the consequences of global warming for the general public experienced visually in order to awaken as an awareness of the risks of climate change.

  • 4.1 Books
  • 4.2 Movies / TV

Life and work

James Balog studied geography and geomorphology at Boston College and the University of Colorado, where in 1977 he received his master's degree.

1980s and 1990s

In the 1980s and 1990s, he became known for his photographs of endangered and hunted animals internationally. He also dealt with the topic of " man and machine ". From 1998 to 2004 he photographed almost exclusively trees, and worked a lot with this photomontage.

Extreme Ice Survey and documentary Chasing Ice

The documentary Chasing Ice portrays the Project Extreme Ice Survey ( EIS) initiated by Balog in 2007 and received at the Sundance Film Festival 2012 the Award for Excellence in Cinematography. As part of the EIS project Balog and his team documented the progressive melting of various glaciers over several years photographically. In addition, the longest video recording of a calving glacier originated. The calving of the Ilulissat glacier in West Greenland lasted 75 minutes and resulted in a retreat of the glacier of about a mile over a width of about 3 miles.

Exhibitions

The works of James Balog were exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Denver Art Museum.

Awards

Balog received various awards, among others:

  • Leica Medal of Excellence
  • Heinz Award
  • Honor Medal for Distinguished Service of the Missouri School of Journalism
  • Visual Arts & Design Award from the Aspen Institute
  • Outstanding Photographer of the Year Award from the North American Nature Photography Association
  • Rowell Award for the Art of Adventure
  • Photographers League Award of the International League of Conservation.

Balog also received an honorary doctorate from the University of Alberta and the "Presidential Citation for Science and Society " of the American Geophysical Union.

Works

  • ICE: Portraits of Vanishing Glaciers, Rizzoli, 2012 ISBN 978-0847838868
  • Extreme Ice Now: Vanishing Glaciers and Changing Climate: A Progress Report, National Geographic Books, Washington DC, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4262-0401-2
  • Giant trees, Munich: Frederking & Thaler, 2006, ISBN 3-89405-657-6 (English: Tree: A New Vision of the American Forest, 2004)
  • Animal, Graphis, New York, 1999, ISBN 978-1-888001-80-8
  • James Balog 's Animals A to Z, Chronicle, San Francisco, 1996, ISBN 978-0-8118-1339-6
  • Anima, Arts Alternative Press, Boulder, Colo. , 1993, ISBN 0-9636266-0-4
  • Survivors: A New Vision of Endangered Wildlife, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1990, ISBN 0-8109-3908-8
  • His Wildlife Requiem, International Center of Photography, New York, 1984, ISBN 0-933642-06-7

Movies / TV

James Balog was involved in the following movies / shows:

  • Chasing Ice ( Director: Jeff Orlowski ), documentary, 2012.
  • Icy Worlds (directed by David Attenborough ), BBC documentary series, 2011.
  • Extreme Ice ( Director: Noel Dockstader ), Documentary, 2009.

Reception

"Each new series by James Balog Represents a quantum leap in creativity, Which takes us deeper into the ultimate mystery of humanity 's relationship to the natural world. He is a visionary and his works are like sacred objects. "

Life (magazine) Vanity Fair (magazine) Ice calving Frozen Planet James Nachtwey The Wall Street Journal Integrated Authority File
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