Screening (Hardcover)

Stefan Stefan

ISBN 10: 3936681414 / ISBN 13: 9783936681413

Verlag: Edition Axel Menges, Fellbach, 2011

Hardcover. Taken together, the photographs in this book represent a visual commentary on our present-day lifestyle. 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. Stefan Koppelkamm's photographs are accompanied by selected monologues from Roland Schimmelpfennig's drama Push Up 1-3, which give the>ideal inhabitants< of this world a voice. These are people who fully subscribe to the images of success and beauty taken from adverts and from the media. 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. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9783936681413

Inhaltsangabe:

Photographs of a huge building site, taken by night, show a bewildering world of machines, cables and scaffolding, seemingly in total chaos. 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 and hotel guests. We can see what they are doing and how they interact with one another. Both everyday work and private life are on public display. Like the propaganda images of totalitarian systems, the vastness of advertising spaces turns our usual sense of proportions on its head. Monumentally large, usually female human figures dwarf houses and people. They look down on the city‘s inhabitants from above. Taken together, the photographs in this book represent a visual commentary on our presentday urban lifestyle. All the pictures were taken in 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. Stefan Koppelkamm’s photographs are accompanied by selected monologues from Roland Schimmelpfennig’s drama Push Up 1– 3, which give the inhabitants of this world a voice. These are people who fully subscribe to the images of success and beauty taken from adverts and from the media.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: 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.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Screening (Hardcover)
Verlag: Edition Axel Menges, Fellbach
Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: new