Helmut Volter: Cloud Studies

ISBN-13: 9783940064998 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2013 / 272 str.

Helmut Völter

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Clouds are fleeting entities - studying them so as to correctly classify, name and read their forms was considered in the 19th and early 20th centuries an important step in coming to understand the secrets of the atmosphere. In its early stages photography offered scientists completely new ways of depicting clouds. They used cameras to make precise, lifelike images, which provided in turn insights into the interaction of clouds and the atmosphere. Helmut Volter's Cloud Studies presents six different stations of scientific cloud photography, from its beginnings in the 1880s to the images made by the first weather satellites in the 1960s. Each of the six chapters represents a very different scientific and photographic perspective of clouds.

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Marcel Beyer, geboren 1965, lebt in Köln und Dresden. Er schreibt Gedichte und Romane. 2006 erhielt Marcel Beyer den "Erich Fried-Preis" und 2008 den "Joseph-Breitbach-Preis". Im Jahr 2012 wurde er zum 39. Stadtschreiber von Bergen-Enkheim ernannt. 2014 wurde er mit dem "Kleist-Preis" und dem "Oskar Pastior Preis" ausgezeichnet, und 2016 mit dem "Düsseldorfer Literaturpreis" und dem "Büchner-Preis".