Daniel Schwartz is a Swiss photographer. He is the author of While the Fires Burn: A Glacier Odyssey (2017), Travelling Through the Eye of History (2009), Delta: The Perils, Profits and Politics of Water in South and Southeast Asia (2004) and The Great Wall of China (2001), all published by Thames & Hudson. Beat Wismer (b. 1953) is an art historian. He has curated numerous exhibitions of historical and contemporary art, on which he has also written and published widely.

'Invites the reader to interact with its pages … an intricate and sophisticated volume that rewards the time spent with it' - Black + White Photography

• Preface - Fanni Fetzer Introduction - Beat Wismer Plates I: Motif Plates II: Association Plates III: Absence Text - Carolin EmckePlates IV: Form Plates V: Observation Text - Giovanna CalvenziPlates VI: Duration Endmatter: catalogue, references, bios and acknowledgments

Daniel Schwartz is a Swiss photographer. He is the author of While the Fires Burn: A Glacier Odyssey (2017), Travelling Through the Eye of History (2009), Delta: The Perils, Profits and Politics of Water in South and Southeast Asia (2004) and The Great Wall of China (2001), all published by Thames & Hudson. Beat Wismer (b. 1953) is an art historian. He has curated numerous exhibitions of historical and contemporary art, on which he has also written and published widely.

'Invites the reader to interact with its pages … an intricate and sophisticated volume that rewards the time spent with it' - Black + White Photography

• Preface - Fanni Fetzer Introduction - Beat Wismer Plates I: Motif Plates II: Association Plates III: Absence Text - Carolin EmckePlates IV: Form Plates V: Observation Text - Giovanna CalvenziPlates VI: Duration Endmatter: catalogue, references, bios and acknowledgments