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Blood From A Stone Photograph - Limited Edition of 10

J Henry Fair

United States

Photography, Digital on Paper

Size: 30 W x 20 H x 0.1 D in

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Many toxic elements are found in coal. Some vaporize and go up the chimney, others become concentrated in the “coal combustion residuals”, particularly arsenic, chromium, lead, mercury, and selenium. Power companies everywhere declare that coal ash is non-toxic, and have been effective in getting legislation passed in the USA to allow unsafe disposal in dumps from which it can percolate down to the groundwater or spill into an adjacent river. Slowly environmental groups have been forcing the power companies to clean up their years of coal ash pollution. In Germany, the coal ash is still being dumped into unlined pits, usually the depleted mine holes, allowing the toxics to leach down into groundwater. True sustainable energy is suddenly possible, and could happen in 25 years. Society must tax the industries that pollute, subsidize those that sustain, and retrain the workers that must move.

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Photography:

Digital on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:

10

Size:

30 W x 20 H x 0.1 D in

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"The vivid color photographs of J Henry Fair lead an uneasy double life as potent records of environmental pollution and as ersatz evocations of abstract painting...information and form work together, to devastating effect." -Roberta Smith, The New York Times Photographer J Henry Fair is best known for his Industrial Scars series, in which he researches our world's most egregious environmental disasters and creates images that are simultaneously stunning and horrifying, and more closely resemble abstract paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe and Jackson Pollock than what the collective views as reality. Mr. Fair's work has been featured in segments on The TODAY Show, CNN, NPR's Marketplace, and WDR German TV, as well as in most major publications, including The New York Times, National Geographic, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, New York Magazine, Harper's Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, and GQ. Additionally, Mr. Fair's work travels around the world in fine art exhibitions at major museums, galleries, and educational institutions. Mr. Fair has served as Artist-in-Residence at some of the nation's top educational institutions for art and environmental studies, including Dartmouth College, Colorado College, Vanderbilt University, and most recently Swarthmore College this past February. Additionally, Mr. Fair maintains an active lecture schedule, in which he presents photographic symposia to audiences in the US and abroad. Recent engagements have included Bloomberg, The Collegiate School, and Die Spedition. After a hugely successful presentation at the TED Talks conference, High Energy, in Berlin in November 2011, Mr. Fair has just completed his second TED Talk, this time at Wake Forest University's conference, Defining the Future, held in February, 2013. Mr. Fair is also a regular blogger on art and the environment for the Huffington Post and NRDC's OnEarth Magazine, giving readers a first-hand look inside the important issues he studies and photographs. Mr. Fair's book, The Day After Tomorrow: Images of Our Earth in Crisis was released in February, 2011, published by powerHouse Books in cooperation with Random House. In January, 2012, Mr. Fair's new multi-media piece, Das Lied von der Erde (Heute), was premiered in Germany by the Weimar Staatskapelle. This stunning performance piece re-imagines Gustav Mahler's classic orchestral work, pairing it with an animated series of Fair's electrifying environmental photographs. Also in 2012, Mr.

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