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Serge Fruehauf - Extra Normal
Joerg Bader (Ed.)
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Description for Serge Fruehauf - Extra Normal
Hardback. The first publication of Serge Fruehauf's architectural documentary. Editor(s): Bader, Joerg. Num Pages: 208 pages, 177 colour, 190 b&w. BIC Classification: AGP; AJB; AJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 238 x 23. Weight in Grams: 866.
For two decades, Swiss photographer Serge Fruehauf has documented fascinating architectural details cast in concrete. But his focus lies not only in the beauty of the built environment, but also in the surprising and sometimes absurd puzzles created by later interventions: stairways that lead to dead ends, disfigured garden walls that have long outlived their purpose. With Serge Fruehauf - Extra Normal, Joerg Bader has selected the best and most interesting of more than one thousand images in Fruehauf's most recent series. Taken throughout Paris, Geneva, Grenoble, and Lyon, Fruehauf's photographs form a critical reflection on architectural modernity mitigated by ... Read more
For two decades, Swiss photographer Serge Fruehauf has documented fascinating architectural details cast in concrete. But his focus lies not only in the beauty of the built environment, but also in the surprising and sometimes absurd puzzles created by later interventions: stairways that lead to dead ends, disfigured garden walls that have long outlived their purpose. With Serge Fruehauf - Extra Normal, Joerg Bader has selected the best and most interesting of more than one thousand images in Fruehauf's most recent series. Taken throughout Paris, Geneva, Grenoble, and Lyon, Fruehauf's photographs form a critical reflection on architectural modernity mitigated by ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Zurich, Switzerland
ISBN
9783858815279
SKU
V9783858815279
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Ref
99-15
About Joerg Bader (Ed.)
Joerg Bader is director at the Centre de la Photographie in Geneva. He is an artist, critic, curator, and the author/editor of several books on photography and contemporary art.
Reviews for Serge Fruehauf - Extra Normal
There's something oddly charming about these details that are overwhelmingly overlooked in their environments. They're almost like urban glitches, with radical architectural concepts scratching through the sterility.
Hyperallergic The plain, often imposing facades of post-war concrete architecture usually make us look away-or look past them entirely. . . . . Extra Normal focuses on their inspired details, which are ... Read more
Hyperallergic The plain, often imposing facades of post-war concrete architecture usually make us look away-or look past them entirely. . . . . Extra Normal focuses on their inspired details, which are ... Read more