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Publisher Note

NOWHERE shows a world in which Instagrammability is first and foremost, in which the new reality is dictated by the seductive image that may (later) be made from it. Architecture, design, and urban landscape are directed by the mechanisms of global big business, and the same antiseptic beauty exists all over the world. NOWHERE—Imagining the Global City presents the work of Dutch photographer Frank van der Salm from the past twenty-five years. Designed by Irma Boom, the book shows a consumer-oriented, imaginary metropolis. Images, sometimes deliberately upside down, challenge the reality they represent. Seen together they form the image of a city that suddenly seems to be simultaneously everywhere and nowhere: both here and now and nowhere. The essays by Shumon Basar, Aaron Betsky, and Urs Stahel link Frank van der Salm’s oeuvre to the world of design, architecture, urban development, art, and photography.

Photobook

Nowhere

— Imagining the Global City

by Frank van der Salm

Publisher
Release Place Stuttgart, Germany
Edition 1st edition
Release Date 2021
Credits
Designer: Irma Boom Office
Identifiers
ISBN-13: 978-3-96070-064-7
Work  
Subform Photobook
Topics Architecture, Beauty Standards, Instagram, Modern Age, Urbanism
Methods Photography
Language English
Format Softcover with three random-choice cover/bellyband combinations
Dimensions 24.0 × 32.0 cm
Pages 360
Technique Digital Color Print