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Synopsis
Working at the intersection of art and environmental politics, photographer Christoph Gielen specializes in conducting photographic aerial studies of infrastructure in its relation to land use. Collected and published here for the first time, Gielen’s abstracting views reveal the hidden geometries of building developments that only emerge when seen from far above the ground, in the elliptical or hexagonal shapes of structures such as maximum security prisons or retirement communities. In Ciphers, Gielen uses a triptych format to present this sprawl as car culture phenomenon and a way of life--encouraging viewers to question both the nature of the developed community and the ramifications of contemporary building trends. These pictures invoke an era of carefree risk-taking, of "bigger is better," when investing in home ownership and commercial real estate were still standard practices and neither distance from workplace nor gasoline prices much mattered in determining the locations of new construction.
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Review
Worth a thousand words, at least. (Raphael Shammaa American Suburb X)
High above we see the startlingly calculated execution and evolution of city centers and suburbs. The latter is the subject of photographer Christoph Gielen's wonderful book of photographs, CIPHERS, in which all manner of suburban development―ribbon and rosary-shaped, with roads delicately snaking through―is photographed abstractly to produce, as Geoff Manaugh, editor of Gizmodo writes in his introduction, "optically provocative geometries." (Tim Teeman The Daily Beast)
Christoph Gielen’s aerial views offer a look at America’s most aberrant and unusual sprawl forms in ways we usually don’t get to see them: from far above the ground―a vantage point that reveals both the intricate geometry as well as the idiosyncratic allure of these developments. (Arch Daily)
CIPHERS is an arresting, mesmerizing piece of art. (Dzana Tsomondo Exposures)
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- PublisherJOVIS
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 3868593187
- ISBN 13 9783868593181
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages96
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Condition: Sehr gut. 95 S. Geoff Manugh Geometric Sociology -- Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris What we cant see from the ground: The Contribution of Gielen's Images to Climate Activism -- Galina Tachieva, Solving Sprawl -- Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss. Imaginary Inhabitation -- Johan Frederik Hartle, Deer Brest and Blooming Garden. ISBN 9783868593181 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 914 Mit zahlr. farb. Abb. Fadengehefteter Originalpappband. Seller Inventory # 1046973
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