Peter Bialobrzeski - Rühle Alex
Paradise Now
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Peter Bialobrzeski's photo-chronicles of the new Asian city have given us defining images of the tiger economy as a semi-toxic miasma of luminous capital. His images epitomize Marx's famous observation on rampant capitalism, "Everything that is solid melts into air." Vicki Goldberg characterized his work in The New York Times as "a vision of Oz beset by a population explosion and invaded by real estate developers who have tripped out on sorbet." Each of Bialobrzeski's publications ( XXX Holy , Neon Tigers , Heimat , Lost in Transition ) has been critically acclaimed, in the art press and beyond, for Bialobrzeski is not only a superb urban documenter, but also a photographer who thinks in book "For me, the individual picture is not too important. I am interested in doing books. I am advocating photography as a cultural practice, not so much as fine art." Paradise Now finds the photographer hunting for remnants of nature on the periphery of Asian cities, under the artificial suns of sodium lamps, automobile hea...
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2009Uitgever: Hatje Cantz Verlag128 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 3775723323ISBN-13: 9783775723329Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2009, oblong cloth hardcover, good copy [Auteur: Bialobrzeski, Peter] [Uitgever: Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH] [Jaar: 2009] [Titel: Peter Bialobrzeski / Paradise Now]
