[16][17][18] Zuckerman has spoken extensively about his interest in systematically collecting and organizing data to create multiple entry points into work that is conceptual in nature.
[19] One such system is a comprehensive mobile studio, consisting of fourteen cases of equipment,[20] with which Zuckerman has traveled the world in order to situate all of his subjects in the same space.
[28] Zuckerman applied the same visual language – intimate, close-up portraits against a bright white background – to the Wisdom project, for which he filmed, photographed, and interviewed 60 politicians, artists, entertainers, designers and religious and business leaders over the age of 65, including Chuck Close, Frank Gehry, Judi Dench, Clint Eastwood, Jane Goodall, Desmond Tutu, and Ted Kennedy.
[33] The Wisdom traveling exhibit, which premiered at The Library of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, incorporates text, video, and images from the project, and continues to tour internationally today.
[25] In order to capture physical qualities and flight activity rarely visible to the viewer, Zuckerman instituted a variety of techniques, including a custom-built delay system, in which the bird's movement triggered the exposure.
[22] Music, was released as a book, film, and iPad application in 2010, and features portraits of and interviews with musicians from disparate genres, including Lenny Kravitz, Ozzy Osbourne, Herbie Hancock, and Philip Glass.
Following the footprint he laid out in Wisdom, Zuckerman touched upon similar themes in interviews with each of his contributors, and the documentary intersects footage of the artists as they discuss performance, collaboration, inspiration, and success.
He has expressed his desire to create, with the use of modern technology, "the best possible two-dimensional representation of three-dimensional living things",[37] and to separate his subject from its metaphorical associations in art.
The project, which filmmaker David Lynch has called "a grand celebration of mother nature's artistry" ,[39] also incorporates time lapse films of the life cycles of seven different species.
"[18] In 2018, Zuckerman launched The Slowdown, a media company he founded with former Surface editor-in-chief Spencer Bailey that "seeks to engage with nature while thinking about our society's relationship to time.
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