Hackney Flowers - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0954940539 ISBN 13: 9780954940539

Verlag: Nobody, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

In 2005, Stephen Gill published Hackney Wick, a book of photographs of the marginalized people who lived and worked in this vibrant yet slightly disreputable London neighborhood--home of the notorious "Black Market" bazaar--which was scheduled for destruction in order to make way for the 2012 Olympics. Hackney Wick is now long out of print, and first editions sell for hundreds of dollars. Hackney Flowers is the beautifully produced follow-up volume. In it Gill collects and presses flowers, seeds, berries and other ephemeral materials found on the streets of Hackney, and composes them as collage elements on top of previously-made photographs of the neighborhood in transition. For this series Gill buried some of the base photographs under a layer of Hackney soil for a time, allowing them to erode and decompose prior to being re-photographed with the pressed materials. Hackney Flowers is a warm and poetic collection that captures the flavors and rhythms of this singular immigrant neighborhood as it cedes its idiosyncratic personality to the generic sports-Modernism of the 2012 Games.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Nobody
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0954940539
• ISBN 13: 9780954940539
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 114
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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