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Stefan Koppelkamm
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Hardcover. Features photographs that represent a visual commentary on our present day lifestyle. In this title, all the pictures were taken in the centre of Berlin - but the same scenes can be seen all over the world. The buildings are just as interchangeable as the monumental images of sex and consumerism. Num Pages: 96 pages, 50 photos. BIC Classification: AJC; AM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 357 x 262 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1184.
Text in English & German. Photographs of a huge building site, taken by night, show a bewildering world of machines, boards, cables and scaffolding, seemingly in total chaos and with mud and puddles everywhere. The viewer's gaze enters dim underworlds that look like a modern equivalent of Piranesi's Carceri. Behind clearly structured, transparent façades we can see office workers, politicians, hotel guests and laboratory staff. We can see what they are doing and how they interact with one another. Both everyday work and private business are on public display. The figures' various social roles are revealed by their body language, ... Read more
Text in English & German. Photographs of a huge building site, taken by night, show a bewildering world of machines, boards, cables and scaffolding, seemingly in total chaos and with mud and puddles everywhere. The viewer's gaze enters dim underworlds that look like a modern equivalent of Piranesi's Carceri. Behind clearly structured, transparent façades we can see office workers, politicians, hotel guests and laboratory staff. We can see what they are doing and how they interact with one another. Both everyday work and private business are on public display. The figures' various social roles are revealed by their body language, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Language
German
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Fellbach, Germany
ISBN
9783936681413
SKU
V9783936681413
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99-11
About Stefan Koppelkamm
Stefan Koppelkamm studied at the Gesamthochschule in Kassel, and after a longer stay in the USA he now lives in Berlin and teaches communication design at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee. Since the publication of his book Gewächshäuser und Wintergärten im 19. Jahrhundert (Stuttgart, 1981), he has repeatedly engaged with historic and current aspects of architecture.
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