Description
| Product ID: | 9783775754804 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Anastasia Samoylova: Image Cities |
| Page Count: | 168 |
| Subjects: | Photography and photographs, Photography & photographs |
| Description: | Reinventing the Image of the Global Metropolis Image Cities takes us on a journey through cities the Globalization and World Cities Research Network ranks highest according to their degree of “global interconnectedness.†We find them in a process of transformation concealed behind dummy façades onto which a sense of heightened anticipation has been projected. It would be tempting to read these photographs as a polemic against the triumph of consumerism and a slowly numbing global visual-economic order that wraps itself around whatever once felt local and civic. Samoylova’s photography is full of masterful refinements of the existing clichés of urban photography: Citizens dwarfed by giant images. Faces and bodies refracted through glass. The Pop-Cubism of visual bricolage. The minuscule human figures that stroll seemingly indifferent through city space while being at least partly somewhere else in their imaginations - their existence already a collage of places and times. Yet, Samoylova consciously engages with cliché, takes it apart and reassembles it, gambling that it can be taken to a level of pictorial sophistication that eludes any simple argument or statement. Instead, she invites us to reflect on photography’s role in the creation of a gap between these citie’s brand identity and their everyday reality. |
| Imprint Name: | Hatje Cantz |
| Publisher Name: | Hatje Cantz |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-03-30 |
