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  Book Title: The Oldest
Living Things in the World	 	
  Book Author:  Rachel Sussman (Author),
Carl Zimmer (Contributor), Hans Ulrich Obrist (Contributor) 
   Hardcover: 304 pages
   Publisher:
University Of Chicago Press (April 14, 2014)
   Language: English
   ISBN-10: 022605750X
   ISBN-13:
978-0226057507
  
  Book Description
  Publication Date: April 14, 2014
  The Oldest Living Things in the World is an epic
journey through time and space. Over the past decade, artist Rachel Sussman has researched, worked with biologists, and
traveled the world to photograph continuously living organisms that are 2,000 years old and older. Spanning from
Antarctica to Greenland, the Mojave Desert to the Australian Outback, the result is a stunning and unique visual
collection of ancient organisms unlike anything that has been created in the arts or sciences before, insightfully and
accessibly narrated by Sussman along the way.
  Her work is both timeless and timely, and spans disciplines,
continents, and millennia. It is underscored by an innate environmentalism and driven by Sussman’s relentless
curiosity. She begins at “year zero,” and looks back from there, photographing the past in the present.
These ancient individuals live on every continent and range from Greenlandic lichens that grow only one centimeter a
century, to unique desert shrubs in Africa and South America, a predatory fungus in Oregon, Caribbean brain coral, to an
80,000-year-old colony of aspen in Utah. Sussman journeyed to Antarctica to photograph 5,500-year-old moss; Australia
for stromatolites, primeval organisms tied to the oxygenation of the planet and the beginnings of life on Earth; and to
Tasmania to capture a 43,600-year-old self-propagating shrub that’s the last individual of its kind. Her
portraits reveal the living history of our planet—and what we stand to lose in the future. These ancient
survivors have weathered millennia in some of the world’s most extreme environments, yet climate change and human
encroachment have put many of them in danger. Two of her subjects have already met with untimely deaths by human
hands.
  Alongside the photographs, Sussman relays fascinating – and sometimes harrowing – tales of
her global adventures tracking down her subjects and shares insights from the scientists who research them. The oldest
living things in the world are a record and celebration of the past, a call to action in the present, and a barometer of
our future.
  
  Reviews
  “Something astounding happens when Rachel Sussman photographs the most ancient organisms to be found across
our planet. A fraction of a second of time in her photographic exposures animates forms that have evolved across
nature's deep time to create a profound experience of being alive. Sussman's ten-year investigation of the symbols of
the earth's ecology is rigorous and exploratory, realized with such generosity to the reader and her ambitions make an
impossibly vast subject both felt and understood.”(Charlotte Cotton, author of The
Photograph as Contemporary Art)
  
  “The Oldest Living Things in the World serves us the
humbling profundity and pathos of things that live almost forever. We see our abstract selves and feel the terrible
bludgeon of that which we cannot have and are fated only to behold. Rachel Sussman brings you to the place where
science, beauty, and eternity meet.”(Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine)
 

  “The Oldest Living Things in the World adds in dramatic manner a fascinating new
perspective—literally, dinosaurs—of the living world around us.”(Edward
O. Wilson, Harvard University)
  
  “Contemplate life through the time scale of The Oldest
Living Things, and you'll find your mind expanded and heart inspired. I'm thrilled to see Rachel's powerful TED talk
develop and deepen into this captivating book. “(Chris Anderson, TED
curator)
  
  “Longevity means continuity. Long-lived people connect generations for us.
Really long-lived organisms, like the ones Sussman has magnificently collected photographically, connect millennia. They
put all of human history in living context. And as Sussman shows, they are everywhere on Earth. This book embodies the
Long Now and the Big Here.”(Stewart Brand, cofounder, The Long Now
Foundation)
  
  “I am in awe—awe staring at my planet's old sages, who know the way
things were, will be, and should be—awe when I appreciate Rachel Sussman's epic quest to round them all up and
her daring in stealing their soul with her photographs.”(Paola Antonelli, senior
curator, Museum of Modern Art)
  
  “There’s a sense of wonder imbued in these
photographs of organisms that seem to be a physical record of time, but there’s also a call to action. Many of
these subjects of Sussman’s portraits are under threat from habitat loss or climate change or simple human
idiocy.”(Time)
  
  “Beautiful and powerful work at the
intersection of fine art, science, and philosophy, spanning seven continents and exploring issues of deep time,
permanence and impermanence, and the interconnectedness of life. With an artist’s gift for ‘aesthetic
force’ and a scientist’s rigorous respect for truth, Sussman straddles a multitude of worlds as she
travels across space and time to unearth Earth’s greatest stories of resilience, stories of tragedy and triumph,
past and future, but above all stories that humble our human lives.”(Brain
Pickings)
  
  “The series, and now book, is part art, part science, and part travelogue, but
the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Because whether you look at these as documentary photography or
scientific snapshots of millennia-old species that are now being threatened by the looming specter of climate change,
there’s something in this book for everyone.”(PetaPixel)
  
  “A gorgeous book of stunning portraits which almost seem to capture the wise, wizened personalities of these
scraggy pines, rippling sea grasses, and otherworldly mosses. Accompanying the photo are Sussman’s essays, which
serve as both a scientific explainer and a captivating travelogue, transporting the reader to often freakishly remote
locations on all seven continents. The book and its subjects are at once inspiring and terrifying—a testament to
the resiliency of nature, of course, but also a reminder of its fragility.”(Gizmodo)
  
  “Photographer Sussman has spent the past decade looking
for the oldest things alive. Her search has led her to every continent, to specimens such as a 2,400-year-old fungus in
Oregon to an ancient shrub in Tasmania (age: 43,600). She documents 30 of those organisms in her new book, The Oldest
Living Things in the World. To find them, she enlisted the help of biologists and explorers—and even collaborated
with the Polar Geospatial Center to get arctic satellite maps to reach a rare moss.”(Wall Street Journal)
  
  “The Oldest Living Things in the World by
contemporary artist Rachel Sussman features photographs of 30 of the oldest continuously living organisms in the world.
They're a dry, scraggly lot, like 5,500-year-old, weather-worn Antarctic moss (first picture, below), and a
2,000-year-old, brittle-looking pafuri baobab tree in South Africa (second picture). Like the very oldest human beings,
tucked away in nursing homes, the oldest plants tend to live in out of the way places, stolid in the desert or
reproducing slowly beneath the permafrost. But unlike human beings, who fade away, these organisms quietly thrive,
diligently repairing their aged molecules and stonewalling generations of pathogens. Most of the time these old things
are an afterthought, but collected together, they begin to appear as the main event on earth.”(Boston Globe)
  
  “Sussman has humbler, nobler designs: creating
additional art and advocating for UNESCO recognition for all ancient organisms. God bless her. We need more artists,
musicians, dancers, and poets to give humanistic expression to the pursuit of environmental knowledge. I wish major
research institutions supported artist-in-residence programs alongside labs. Sussman believes that ‘[t]he best art
and science projects enhance and extend each other, bringing something new to both; they are not about simply making the
research pretty, or making artworks using novel scientific tools.’ By this measure, The Oldest Living Things in
the World is a work for the ages.”(Science)
  
  “Anyone who
sees Sussman’s images will be struck by their beauty, but the photos also have the power to make one ponder our
fate, and the planet’s.”(San Francisco Chronicle)
  
 
“At a time when science is increasingly specialized, her artist’s vision transcends the divides between
disciplines, and she highlights the importance of analyzing longevity across species as a way of understanding our
world.”
  (Boston Globe)
  
  “The photos are
beautiful, and even more so when you learn how ancient each living thing is. Her youngest subjects are 2,000 years old
(such as brain coral she found in Tobago, and a strange exotic plant called welwitschia spotted in Namibia), and these
are mere toddlers compared to their elders, like the 80,000-year-old aspen trees from Utah (pictured above) and the
400,000-600,000 year-old continually living Siberian bacteria! A photography book filled only with these incredible
miracles of nature would have certainly made for a gem to be displayed. But Sussman surprised me with what most coffee
table books don’t do – she told an engaging story, filled with humor, intrigue, and fascinating science,
based on her experience over the last 10 years researching, traveling and photographing this book. If Oldest Living
Things contained no photos, her story would still easily stand on its own as a captivating memoir … or an engaging
science textbook … or both, actually.”
  (Boing Boing)
  
  About the Author
  Rachel Sussman
is a contemporary artist based in Brooklyn. Her photographs and writing have been featured in the New York Times, Wall
Street Journal, Guardian, and NPR’s Picture Show. She has spoken on the TED main stage and at the Long Now
Foundation, is a MacDowell Colony and NYFA Fellow and is a trained member of Al Gore’s Climate Reality Leadership
Corps. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in the US and Europe, and acquired for museum, university,
corporate, and private collections. She is fiscally sponsored by the Brooklyn Arts Council. 						

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