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Joel Sternfeld: iDubai
Joel Sternfeld
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Description for Joel Sternfeld: iDubai
Hardcover. As Paris and its shopping arcades were to the 19th Century, Dubai and its wondrous malls may be to the new millennium. In this work, the author uses his iPhone camera to get past mass media images of the Emirate as Disney World on the Persian Gulf, and find a human component. Num Pages: 96 pages, 70 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 236 x 13. Weight in Grams: 360.
As Paris and its shopping arcades were to the 19th Century, Dubai and its wondrous malls may be to the new millennium. The Baudelarian flâneur, is replaced by the phoneur, a wired wanderer who uses the cell phone to text and call and access the internet, all the while snapping digital images on the fly. If the arcades were representative sites of early capitalism, then perhaps the postmodern shopping playgrounds of Dubai are exemplars of advanced capitalism. With this in mind, when Joel Sternfeld visited these malls in 2008, he documented them with the consumer fetish object of the moment ... Read more
As Paris and its shopping arcades were to the 19th Century, Dubai and its wondrous malls may be to the new millennium. The Baudelarian flâneur, is replaced by the phoneur, a wired wanderer who uses the cell phone to text and call and access the internet, all the while snapping digital images on the fly. If the arcades were representative sites of early capitalism, then perhaps the postmodern shopping playgrounds of Dubai are exemplars of advanced capitalism. With this in mind, when Joel Sternfeld visited these malls in 2008, he documented them with the consumer fetish object of the moment ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Steidl Publishers Germany
Number of pages
96
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
360g
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Gottingen, Germany
ISBN
9783865219169
SKU
V9783865219169
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