Mikkel Aaland's SWEAT
A tour of the great bathing cultures of the world, in search of the perfect SWEAT.
DATES & TIMES: Coming in 2011
-This is me, back in 1975, during a visit to the Finnish Sauna Society at Vaskiniemi, on the outskirts of Helsinki. After the 230 degree F heat of the Society's smoke sauna,an icy plunge into the Baltic felt great. Honest.
DATES & TIMES: Coming in 2011
-This is me, back in 1975, during a visit to the Finnish Sauna Society at Vaskiniemi, on the outskirts of Helsinki. After the 230 degree F heat of the Society's smoke sauna,an icy plunge into the Baltic felt great. Honest.
About the host
Mikkel Aaland is an award-winning photographer and the best-selling author of fifteen books. Aaland's best known book is Sweat, The Illustrated History and Description of the Finnish Sauna, Russian Bania, Islamic Hamman, Japanese Mushi-buro, Mexican Temescal and American Indian & Eskimo Sweatlodge.
Aaland's other books include Photoshop Lightroom 2 Adventure, Photoshop CS3 RAW (O’Reilly 2008), Shooting Digital (2nd edition, 2007), Photoshop Elements 4 Solutions (4th edition Sybex/Wiley, 2006), The Sword of Heaven (Traveler's Tales, 1999), Photoshop for the Web, 2nd edition (O’Reilly, 1999), Still Images in Multimedia (Hayden, 1996), Digital Photography (Random House, 1992), and County Fair Portraits (Capra Press, 1981).
Aaland’s documentary photographs have been exhibited in major institutions around the world, including the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and the former Lenin Museum in Prague. He has contributed both text and/or photography to Wired, Outside, Digital Creativity, American Photo, The Washington Post, and Newsweek, as well as several European publications.
About his books and work, Aaland writes,
"As you can see by my list of titles, I'm interested in many diverse subjects, ranging from sweat bathing, to county fairs, to Shinto, and to digital photography. At first glance the subjects may seem disconnected, but I feel there is a common theme, and it's one of wholeness. I like to think of myself as a bridge that brings together people and cultures, and the old and the modern. The bridge metaphor even extends to my method of communication, combining words and images, making the whole larger than the sum of the parts. I love authoring books because they are the perfect medium for putting everything into one package."
www.cyberbohemia.com/Pages/sweat.htm
Aaland's other books include Photoshop Lightroom 2 Adventure, Photoshop CS3 RAW (O’Reilly 2008), Shooting Digital (2nd edition, 2007), Photoshop Elements 4 Solutions (4th edition Sybex/Wiley, 2006), The Sword of Heaven (Traveler's Tales, 1999), Photoshop for the Web, 2nd edition (O’Reilly, 1999), Still Images in Multimedia (Hayden, 1996), Digital Photography (Random House, 1992), and County Fair Portraits (Capra Press, 1981).
Aaland’s documentary photographs have been exhibited in major institutions around the world, including the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and the former Lenin Museum in Prague. He has contributed both text and/or photography to Wired, Outside, Digital Creativity, American Photo, The Washington Post, and Newsweek, as well as several European publications.
About his books and work, Aaland writes,
"As you can see by my list of titles, I'm interested in many diverse subjects, ranging from sweat bathing, to county fairs, to Shinto, and to digital photography. At first glance the subjects may seem disconnected, but I feel there is a common theme, and it's one of wholeness. I like to think of myself as a bridge that brings together people and cultures, and the old and the modern. The bridge metaphor even extends to my method of communication, combining words and images, making the whole larger than the sum of the parts. I love authoring books because they are the perfect medium for putting everything into one package."
www.cyberbohemia.com/Pages/sweat.htm