Fully Fueled

Basile Mookherjee

ISBN 10: 3906803155 / ISBN 13: 9783906803159

Published by Edition Patrick Frey, 2016

About this Item

Fully Fueled | Basile Mookherjee | Taschenbuch | 172 S. | Deutsch | 2016 | Edition Patrick Frey | EAN 9783906803159 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fully Fueled
• Publisher: Edition Patrick Frey
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3906803155
• ISBN 13: 9783906803159
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 337W x 263H x 13D millimeters 337 millimeters width by 263 millimeters height by 13 millimeters depth
• Weight: 816 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Fully Fueled brings together pictures taken from 2012 to 2014 by the young French photographer Basile Mookherjee, who documented young Emiratis' nights out and the United Arab Emirates' 42nd national holiday on the streets of Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Flat, sprawled-out urban deserts, phallic urban geometries, reflecting surfaces and lavish ornamentation form the decor. The secret stars of these photographs are of course the cars, and the view seldom rises above windshield level. The human subjects, traditionally dressed in dishdasha (for men) and abaya (for women), seem as though photographed "through the lens of the car," as the photographer puts it. Fully Fueled is an over-the-top liturgy composed of the shapes and surfaces of our globalized environment. The book also reflects on the UAE's abrupt petrodollar-driven modernization and the aesthetic expression thereof in cities that have sprung up amid an essentially nomadic Middle Eastern culture. A world somewhere between desert dust and Gotham City, Islam and spending power, tradition and modernity.

About the Author

Basile Mookherjee (né en 1987 à Paris, où il vit et travaille) est un photographe français, diplômé de Central Saint Martins, Londres, et de l'ECAL, Lausanne.