Synopsis
The work of Armin Linke is one of the most committed and interesting attempts to represent, on a global scale, images of the transformations taking place in the world today.
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About the Author
Armin Linke was born in 1966. He lives and works in Milan. His work was has been presented at the Venice Biennale and Documenta. Linke also works as a fashion photographer contributing to magazines such as Vogue and his industrial photographs are included in kARTell (Skira, 2003).
Reviews
The hyperreality of globalism has been heightened by photographers like Jeff Wall and Andreas Gursky, who manipulate their images; Milanese photographer Linke manages to let his eerily huge scales and odd mix of built and "natural" transnational spaces speak for themselves. These 180 beautifully printed images depict scenes all over the world, from the Museum of the Unknown Soldier in Baghdad to the "Water Shop" in Nukus, Uzbekistan; a computer shop in Lagos, Nigeria; the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas; and a Genoa barricaded for the G8 summit. As Linke notes in an included interview, the photos mark the point where "the boundary between fiction and non-fiction blurs or becomes invisible."
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