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Image Cities takes us on a journey through cities the Globalization and World Cities Research Network ranks highest according to their degree of "global interconnectedness." We find them in a process of transformation concealed behind dummy façades onto which a sense of heightened anticipation has been projected. It would be tempting to read these photographs as a polemic against the triumph of consumerism and a slowly numbing global visual-economic order that wraps itself around whatever once felt local and civic. Samoylova's photography is full of masterful refinements of the existing clichés of urban photography: Citizens dwarfed by giant images. Faces and bodies refracted through glass. The Pop-Cubism of visual bricolage. The minuscule human figures that stroll seemingly indifferent through city space while being at least partly somewhere else in their imaginations¿ their existence already a collage of places and times. Yet, Samoylova consciously engages with cliché, takes it apart and reassembles it, gambling that it can be taken to a level of pictorial sophistication that eludes any simple argument or statement. Instead, she invites us to reflect on photography's role in the creation of a gap between these citie's brand identity and their everyday reality.
ANASTASIA SAMOYLOVA (*1984) grew up in Moscow. In 2008 she moved to the United States, where she graduated with a master's degree in Interdisciplinary Art from Bradley University, Illinois. Her work explores the tension between the staged perception of a bombastic materialism and reality. Living and working in Miami, Florida has become the backdrop for her combination of collage-like details with the genre of the road trip. Her recent series Flood Zones and Floridas have received great critical acclaim.
Image Cities takes us on a journey through cities the Globalization and World Cities Research Network ranks highest according to their degree of "global interconnectedness." We find them in a process of transformation concealed behind dummy façades onto which a sense of heightened anticipation has been projected. It would be tempting to read these photographs as a polemic against the triumph of consumerism and a slowly numbing global visual-economic order that wraps itself around whatever once felt local and civic. Samoylova's photography is full of masterful refinements of the existing clichés of urban photography: Citizens dwarfed by giant images. Faces and bodies refracted through glass. The Pop-Cubism of visual bricolage. The minuscule human figures that stroll seemingly indifferent through city space while being at least partly somewhere else in their imaginations¿ their existence already a collage of places and times. Yet, Samoylova consciously engages with cliché, takes it apart and reassembles it, gambling that it can be taken to a level of pictorial sophistication that eludes any simple argument or statement. Instead, she invites us to reflect on photography's role in the creation of a gap between these citie's brand identity and their everyday reality.
ANASTASIA SAMOYLOVA (*1984) grew up in Moscow. In 2008 she moved to the United States, where she graduated with a master's degree in Interdisciplinary Art from Bradley University, Illinois. Her work explores the tension between the staged perception of a bombastic materialism and reality. Living and working in Miami, Florida has become the backdrop for her combination of collage-like details with the genre of the road trip. Her recent series Flood Zones and Floridas have received great critical acclaim.
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2023 |
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Genre: | Kunst |
Rubrik: | Kunst & Musik |
Thema: | Fotografie |
Medium: | Buch |
Inhalt: |
168 S.
100 Fotos |
ISBN-13: | 9783775754804 |
ISBN-10: | 3775754806 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Herstellernummer: | 0005480 |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: | Samoylova, Anastasia/Campany, David/del Val, Victoria |
Hersteller: | Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH |
Abbildungen: | 100 Fotos |
Maße: | 304 x 245 x 20 mm |
Von/Mit: | Anastasia/Campany, David/del Val, Victoria Samoylova |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 08.03.2023 |
Gewicht: | 1,142 kg |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2023 |
---|---|
Genre: | Kunst |
Rubrik: | Kunst & Musik |
Thema: | Fotografie |
Medium: | Buch |
Inhalt: |
168 S.
100 Fotos |
ISBN-13: | 9783775754804 |
ISBN-10: | 3775754806 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Herstellernummer: | 0005480 |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: | Samoylova, Anastasia/Campany, David/del Val, Victoria |
Hersteller: | Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH |
Abbildungen: | 100 Fotos |
Maße: | 304 x 245 x 20 mm |
Von/Mit: | Anastasia/Campany, David/del Val, Victoria Samoylova |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 08.03.2023 |
Gewicht: | 1,142 kg |