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Beat Streuli: City

Hatje Cantz

Synopsis:
Swiss photographer Beat Streuli has come to international attention in the photo and art communities for his images of the tempos of modern urban living, pictures of haste, movement, and time passing or even dragging on. Using a telephoto lens, he photographs unknown passers-by, mainly anonymous young people capturing their relationship to public space. Writing in Parkett #54, Trevor Smith comments that his work "makes palpable the psychological dimension of all urban situations. It explores the patterns of attention and inattention that people deploy to live in the city, to be in the crowd. The people in Streuli's images visibly negotiate their connection to their environment, the boundaries of their awareness are constantly shifting, expanding and contracting to dodge the city's shadows."

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2004, Softcover - 2004, Softcover - 2004, Hardcover - 2004, Hardcover - 2004, Hardcover - 2003, Hardcover - 2002, 2002, Hardcover - 2002, Softcover - 2001