Diane Tuft’s *The Arctic Melt: Images of a Disappearing Landscape* (Assouline, 2017) records a polar environment undergoing irreversible change. The book brings together photographs made at the North Pole, among the mountain glaciers of Svalbard, Norway, and around the icebergs and ice sheet of Greenland. Rather than treating the Arctic as remote spectacle alone, Tuft frames ice as both subject and evidence: a vast, ancient landscape whose visible forms register the accelerating effects of global warming.

The project’s force lies in the tension between formal beauty and environmental warning. Tuft’s practice as an art and environmental photographer gives the images a contemplative scale, while the book’s stated purpose—to photograph the Arctic before continued melting renders its frozen terrain unrecognizable—places each view within a specific historical moment. More than fifty photographs chart a passage through a waning tundra, joining aesthetic attention to an account of planetary transformation.

For collectors, the book is notable as a focused monograph in which geography, climate, and photographic interpretation remain closely intertwined. It follows Tuft’s earlier publication *Gondwana: Images of an Ancient Land*, extending her sustained engagement with landscapes understood through deep time. The 175-page English-language hardcover gives this body of work a substantial book form, allowing the Arctic’s distinct sites to be considered not as isolated images but as parts of a larger, unfolding record. Its value rests in that balance: an art book of compelling landscape photographs that also asks how images can preserve the appearance of a world in the process of disappearing.