Anastasia Samoylova : image cities /

"Our cities are becoming collages. Lifestyle advertising, real-estate billboards, and hyper-photogenic architecture make urban space feel like a fantasy stage set of ever-shifting scenery. International brands smother local history. Global capitalism imposes its visual order. In the spectacle,...

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Other Authors: Samoylova, Anastasia, 1984- (Photographer), Campany, David (writer of added supplementary textual content.), Wheelwright, John (Translator) (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from Spanish.
Published: Berlin : Hatje Cantz, 2023.
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Summary:"Our cities are becoming collages. Lifestyle advertising, real-estate billboards, and hyper-photogenic architecture make urban space feel like a fantasy stage set of ever-shifting scenery. International brands smother local history. Global capitalism imposes its visual order. In the spectacle, vision is distracted. From Tokyo to Moscow, via New York, Madrid, and London, Anastasia Samoylova has photographed seventeen cities with an eye both critical and aesthetic. Her complex compositions frame the urban collage in all its troubled beauty, flattening its layers into seductive and estranged visual poems." -- Page [4] of cover.
Item Description:"Originally published as Anastasia Samoylova: Image cities in Spanish and Catalan in 2023 by Fundacion MAPFRE, Madrid"--Colophon.
Physical Description:163 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
ISBN:9783775754804
3775754806