Civilization: The Way We Live Now

In Civilization, a top curator offers an unprecedented look at contemporary photographs that track the visual threads of humankind's frenetic, collective life across the globe.

We hurtle together into the future at ever-increasing speed-or so it seems to the collective psyche. Perpetually evolving, morphing, building and demolishing, rethinking, reframing and reshaping the world around and ahead-and the people within it-an emerging, planetary-wide Civilization is our grand, global, collective endeavor. Never before in human history have so many people been so interconnected, and so interdependent.

With close to 500 images, many previously unpublished, this landmark publication takes stock of the material and spiritual cultures that make up "civilization.