Thomas Demand: Phototrophy - Hardcover

Rugoff, Ralph; Franck, Julia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3829601719 ISBN 13: 9783829601719

Publisher: Schirmer/Mosel Verlag Gmbh, 2004

Synopsis

Thomas Demand is one of the most celebrated contemporary photo artists. At first sight, Demand s pictures, say of a kitchen, a copy shop, or a car park, seem like depictions of everyday places. Yet on closer inspection they turn out to be reconstructions of reality: Demand creates life-size environments made of paper and cardboard and accurate down to the smallest details, photographs these "re-creations" and then destroys them. The pictures that arise in this way put their finger squarely on the drab aesthetics of the modern office world and architecture. Demand s sculptural and somehow filmic simulations, completely devoid of people, lead us into a world of models, in which a "faked" reality blends with the memory of a real reality to generate vividly cool images and to investigate the concept of virtual reality that plays such a key role in our technological multimedia age. This major monograph presents 66 key works from 1993 to the present.

Edition details

• Publisher: Schirmer/Mosel Verlag Gmbh
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3829601719
• ISBN 13: 9783829601719
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Scheinder Eckhard