Description
| Product ID: | 9789089897459 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | BE |
| Title: | Streets of the World |
| Authors: | Author: Jeroen Swolfs |
| Page Count: | 408 |
| Subjects: | Individual photographers, Individual photographers, Social and cultural history, Travel writing, Social & cultural history, Travel writing |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating In this book, one street in each of 200 different cities across seven continents is picked out, and examined by means of infographics and a short text. The street thereby becomes a symbol for a culture. Two-hundred capitals; one street each; seven years of travelling and collecting photos, stories, facts and figures about each capital. This is not just another photography book. It reveals everything that a street means to society: education, wisdom, youth, experience, happiness, stories, food, and so much more. This is the raw material of life, drawn directly from the experiences of the Dutch photographer Jeroen Swolfs. Seeing the street as a unifying theme, he travelled in search of that one street in each place - sometimes by a harbour or a railway station - that comprised the country as a whole. Each stunning image conveys culture, colours, rituals, even the history of the city and country where he found them. Swolfs sees the street as a universal meeting place, a platform of crowds, a centre of news and gossip, a place of work, and a playground for children. Indeed, Swolfs''s streets are a matrix for community; his photographs are published at a time when the unique insularity of local communities everywhere has never been more under threat. |
| Imprint Name: | Lannoo Publishers |
| Publisher Name: | Lannoo Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-01-24 |
