ON PLANET EARTH

On Planet Earth: Travels in an Unfamiliar Land collects Jan Staller’s strangely seductive photographs from locations across the United States and around the world- from abandoned factories to military test sites, from high-tech water-purification plants to heavy machinery that looks like it fell from outer space. Staller’s photographs reveal bizarre and forgotten constructions of industrial society, set against a symphony of color and light.

Complementing the images on On Planet Earth is a narrative by Luc Sante, who shares Staller’s fascination with urban and industrial wastelands, the history they contain, and the mysteries they conceal. Together, Staller’s photographs and Sante’s text offer a stimulating, Technicolor tour of the unknown at the edge of the contemporary landscape.

Publisher: Aperture Foundation, Inc
Year: 1997