Spectacular City
Photographing the Future
ed. by Emiliano Gandolfi ; texts Aaron Betsky ; Jean-Francois Chevrier ; Steven Jacobs

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Author(s)

Aaron Betsky, Jean-Francois Chevrier, Steven Jacobs

Editor(s)

Emiliano Gandolfi

Publication

Rotterdam : NAi Publishers, 2006

Scope

180 Pages, illustrated, 32 cm.

ISBN

9789056625184

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This publication coincides with the exhibition at the Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam 23.09.2006- 07.01.2007. The artists in this book show us the spectacle of urbanity as a myth. The work of these photographers reveals an almost extraterrestrial beauty of urban liminal spaces and sites in transformation. Over recent years they have provided inspiration for a whole new way of looking at the city. Thanks to their gaze, places that were once considered 'ugly', such as port and industrial zones, have acquired a new visual quality, which now sometimes even serves as inspiration for the design of public spaces and buildings.

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Person as subject

Thomas Demand, Andreas Gursky, Aglaia Konrad, ...[et al.]

Keywords

photography , architecture , urbanism

Location

Cabinet 12 - 4: Documentaire Fotografie ; Journalistiek

Extra themes

Architecture and Art

Remarks