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IDUBAI

English · Paperback / Softback

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Informationen zum Autor Joel Sternfeld! geboren 1944 in New York! gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Fotografen der Gegenwart. Im Steidl Verlag erschienen seine letzten beiden Bücher: Walking the High Line über eine aufgegebene Hochbahnlinie in Manhattan! die sich zu einem parkartigen Biotop entwickelt hat! sowie Treading on Kings! eine Dokumentation über Demonstranten beim G8-Gipfel der größten Wirtschaftsnationen in Genua. Zu Sternfelds zahlreichen Auszeichnungen zählen zwei Guggenheim Fellowships und der Prix de Rome. Klappentext What Parisian shopping arcades were to the nineteenth century and capitalism! Dubai's luxurious mega-malls are to the new millennium and late capitalism. The Baudelairean flaneur! who patrolled the avenues as a detached observer! today is replaced by the phoneur! a wired wanderer who uses a cell phone to text! call! Web-surf and snap digital images on the fly. Zusammenfassung 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 the iPhone. In the process! he achieves a very particular unity of form and content; the object that encapsulates the spirit of an era is used to document that era.The ramifications of a profusion of mobile phone cameras around the globe are numerous. We have already witnessed this phenomenon becoming a platform for news construction with civilian journalism changing the documentation of events. In Dubai! Joel Sternfeld 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. ...

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Joel Sternfeld, geboren 1944 in New York, gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Fotografen der Gegenwart. Im Steidl Verlag erschienen seine letzten beiden Bücher: Walking the High Line über eine aufgegebene Hochbahnlinie in Manhattan, die sich zu einem parkartigen Biotop entwickelt hat, sowie Treading on Kings, eine Dokumentation über Demonstranten beim G8-Gipfel der größten Wirtschaftsnationen in Genua. Zu Sternfelds zahlreichen Auszeichnungen zählen zwei Guggenheim Fellowships und der Prix de Rome.

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Authors Jonathan Crary, Joel Sternfeld
Publisher Steidl Druckerei und Verlag
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.05.2010
 
EAN 9783865219169
ISBN 978-3-86521-916-9
Dimensions 203 mm x 254 mm x 10 mm
Subjects Guides > Hobby, home > Photography, filmmaking, video filmmaking
Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV
Social sciences, law, business

Fotografie, Dubai, Fotografie, Computerkunst, Fotograf, entdecken, coffee-table-book

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