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foil stamped clothbound hardcover, with tipped in b/w photo
77 b/w images
Publisher Note english italian
A city as there may be many others. A walk like any city dweller can do. A particular look, however, able to tell the space between objects and its power with respect to things. The omnipresence of trees and the nature that makes its way. The sidewalk where traces of reality nestle. A walk in black and white studying the everyday.
Michael Ashkin explores the breaks in districts beyond the city center, where large-scale redevelopment has yet to happen. The architecture of the suburbs belongs neither to the historical image of pre-war Berlin, nor to its new identity as a contemporary global city. This sort of space doesn’t respond readily to the camera’s propensity for order, and Ashkin’s photographs play on its strange, disorienting quality, looking up past the tops of buildings, peering out from behind knots of vegetation, gazing dully at the ground. Many of the photographs feel like accidents. The modern city engenders various pathologies, among them agoraphobia and claustrophobia – the one an intense anxiety felt in open spaces, the other, a panic brought about by confinement. “Horizont” channels both of these aberrations.
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Release Date | 2018 |
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9781943146147
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Subform | Photobook |
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Dimensions | 17.0 × 22.5 cm |
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Pages | 96 |
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