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This artist's book is based on Cyprien Gaillard's "Geographical Analogies," a collection of 900 Polaroids, carefully and rigorously arranged in a total of 100 showcases, telling many stories about landscapes, monuments, modernist buildings, and architectonic utopias, and just as many stories about decay, destruction, and devastation. As Rein Wolfs puts it in the introduction of this publication "Gaillard's epic work, outmodedly analog … reflects a computation of time that seems to have disappeared …. In the disintegrating medium of Polaroid photography the aspect of disappearance inherent to time is documented and allegedly temporarily halted—until in foreseeable time these originals too will have disappeared beyond recall … Decay, disappearance, remembrance and decline are omnipresent motifs in this work … Numerous devastated concrete landscapes, unfinished holiday developments, monuments, ruins, modernist high-rise estates, cemeteries, landscapes and—as a…
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Cyprien Gaillard: Geographical Analogies Hardcover - 2011
by Cyprien Gaillard (Artist); Florence Derieux (Editor); Rein Wolfs (Editor)
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- Title Cyprien Gaillard: Geographical Analogies
- Author Cyprien Gaillard (Artist); Florence Derieux (Editor); Rein Wolfs (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Jrp Ringier, Zürich
- Date 2011-01
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9783037641484 / 3037641487
- Weight 3.36 lbs (1.52 kg)
- Dimensions 12.5 x 9.25 x 0.81 in (31.75 x 23.50 x 2.06 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 779.092
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