Paris - New York - Shanghai
by Hans Eijkelboom
Photographs: Hans Eijkelboom
Text: Martin Parr, Tony Godfrey
Publisher: Aperture Foundation
240 pages
Pictures: 1,256 four-color images
Year: 2007
ISBN: 978-1-59711-044-0
Price: 69 €
Comments: Hardcover, triple-volume binding; English
Here is even more proof that the differences in exotic cultures have already been conquered and eliminated by globalization — at least in three large cities on three different continents. Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom has documented the sameness of fashion and trends and every-day urban living in 21st century Paris, New York, and Shanghai. This superb photo book is more about cool book design, and obsessive anthropological-sociological typologies, than it is about great photography. But it is a gem.
The brilliant design of the book folds out to reveal three connected books with identical sequences of near-identical subject-matter: opened and stretched out on your reading desk you have three books side-by-side. It then becomes natural to turn the pages of all three books simultaneously as you proceed. With delight, we are presented with, for instance, photographs of French, American, and Chinese men all wearing camouflage clothes as fashion statements in all three cities — lots of men, lots of camouflage, in cities!
This pattern continues to an amazing degree with all sorts of typologies to compare and contrast: huge public sculptures, people wheeling luggage and boxes through city streets, traffic jams, urban places to relax, and even an hilarious triple spread of women sporting Louis Vuitton look-alike handbags.
Tony Godfrey writes this in his introductory essay:
"For a book of art photographs, there is an extraordinary array of images. Having opened it, I turn the pages of each volume simultaneously: I can see sixty photographs of men in striped shirts; turn again, and I see an army of seventy-two men in suits marching to work; turn again, and a panorama of empty civic spaces. What are we being told? That this is a small world after all? Is this a Family of Man on a minimal grid?”
This book forces those questions, and more. And though no single image is a stellar, stand-alone photograph, there is generous volume of photographs here — 1,256 color images to be exact.
— Jim Casper
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Etan & Me
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Paris - New York - Shanghai
by Hans Eijkelboom
Photographs: Hans Eijkelboom
Text: Martin Parr, Tony Godfrey
Publisher: Aperture Foundation
240 pages
Pictures: 1,256 four-color images
Year: 2007
ISBN: 978-1-59711-044-0
Price: 69 €
Comments: Hardcover, triple-volume binding; English
Here is even more proof that the differences in exotic cultures have already been conquered and eliminated by globalization — at least in three large cities on three different continents. Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom has documented the sameness of fashion and trends and every-day urban living in 21st century Paris, New York, and Shanghai. This superb photo book is more about cool book design, and obsessive anthropological-sociological typologies, than it is about great photography. But it is a gem.
The brilliant design of the book folds out to reveal three connected books with identical sequences of near-identical subject-matter: opened and stretched out on your reading desk you have three books side-by-side. It then becomes natural to turn the pages of all three books simultaneously as you proceed. With delight, we are presented with, for instance, photographs of French, American, and Chinese men all wearing camouflage clothes as fashion statements in all three cities — lots of men, lots of camouflage, in cities!
This pattern continues to an amazing degree with all sorts of typologies to compare and contrast: huge public sculptures, people wheeling luggage and boxes through city streets, traffic jams, urban places to relax, and even an hilarious triple spread of women sporting Louis Vuitton look-alike handbags.
Tony Godfrey writes this in his introductory essay:
"For a book of art photographs, there is an extraordinary array of images. Having opened it, I turn the pages of each volume simultaneously: I can see sixty photographs of men in striped shirts; turn again, and I see an army of seventy-two men in suits marching to work; turn again, and a panorama of empty civic spaces. What are we being told? That this is a small world after all? Is this a Family of Man on a minimal grid?”
This book forces those questions, and more. And though no single image is a stellar, stand-alone photograph, there is generous volume of photographs here — 1,256 color images to be exact.
— Jim Casper
More books by Hans Eijkelboom
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Quatorze Juillet (last copy - new)
by Johan van der Keuken
Euro 120 -
Poem as an Object # 6 (signed)
by Wypke Jannette Walen
Euro 17.50 -
Window of my Eye (signed)
by Annet van der Voort
Euro 35 -
Fragile - World Press Photo
by Joop Swart Masterclass 2007
sold out -
Etan & Me
by Viviane Sassen
sold out -
Macedonia
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Dreaming Leone (signed + numbered)
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Euro 350 -
DEEPER SHADES #01 NEW YORK (book + print)
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Marrakech
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I will be wolf
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Euro 33 -
ANKUNFT BEI AUFBRUCH
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by Emilie Gafner
Euro 25 -
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by Brian David Stevens
sold out -
I'M ONE. 21st century Mods (signed + print)
by Horst A. Friedrichs
Euro 108.90
A collector's choice by josefchladek.com
Paris - New York - Shanghai
by Hans Eijkelboom
Photographs: Hans Eijkelboom
Text: Martin Parr, Tony Godfrey
Publisher: Aperture Foundation
240 pages
Pictures: 1,256 four-color images
Year: 2007
ISBN: 978-1-59711-044-0
Price: 69 €
Comments: Hardcover, triple-volume binding; English
Here is even more proof that the differences in exotic cultures have already been conquered and eliminated by globalization — at least in three large cities on three different continents. Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom has documented the sameness of fashion and trends and every-day urban living in 21st century Paris, New York, and Shanghai. This superb photo book is more about cool book design, and obsessive anthropological-sociological typologies, than it is about great photography. But it is a gem.
The brilliant design of the book folds out to reveal three connected books with identical sequences of near-identical subject-matter: opened and stretched out on your reading desk you have three books side-by-side. It then becomes natural to turn the pages of all three books simultaneously as you proceed. With delight, we are presented with, for instance, photographs of French, American, and Chinese men all wearing camouflage clothes as fashion statements in all three cities — lots of men, lots of camouflage, in cities!
This pattern continues to an amazing degree with all sorts of typologies to compare and contrast: huge public sculptures, people wheeling luggage and boxes through city streets, traffic jams, urban places to relax, and even an hilarious triple spread of women sporting Louis Vuitton look-alike handbags.
Tony Godfrey writes this in his introductory essay:
"For a book of art photographs, there is an extraordinary array of images. Having opened it, I turn the pages of each volume simultaneously: I can see sixty photographs of men in striped shirts; turn again, and I see an army of seventy-two men in suits marching to work; turn again, and a panorama of empty civic spaces. What are we being told? That this is a small world after all? Is this a Family of Man on a minimal grid?”
This book forces those questions, and more. And though no single image is a stellar, stand-alone photograph, there is generous volume of photographs here — 1,256 color images to be exact.
— Jim Casper
More books by Hans Eijkelboom
more books tagged »Dutch« | >> see all
-
Quatorze Juillet (last copy - new)
by Johan van der Keuken
Euro 120 -
Poem as an Object # 6 (signed)
by Wypke Jannette Walen
Euro 17.50 -
Window of my Eye (signed)
by Annet van der Voort
Euro 35 -
Fragile - World Press Photo
by Joop Swart Masterclass 2007
sold out -
Etan & Me
by Viviane Sassen
sold out -
Macedonia
by Cuny Janssen
Euro 165
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Cakes & Balls (signed -review copy)
by Martin Parr
Euro 65 45.50 -
Dreaming Leone (signed + numbered)
by Alvaro Deprit
Euro 33 -
END. (signed - last copy)
by Eamonn Doyle
Euro 350 -
DEEPER SHADES #01 NEW YORK (book + print)
by Andreas H. Bitesnich
Euro 470 -
Wolfsburg Diary
by Peter Bialobrzeski
sold out -
Marrakech
by Daido Moriyama
Euro 88
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Cycle Style
by Horst A. Friedrichs
Euro 25.70 -
I will be wolf
by Bertien van Manen
Euro 33 -
ANKUNFT BEI AUFBRUCH
by Sebastian Hesse, Andreas Rost & Christian Reister
Euro 12 8.40 -
Le lisboète (signed)
by Emilie Gafner
Euro 25 -
Notting Hill Soundsystems 2 (last copy)
by Brian David Stevens
sold out -
I'M ONE. 21st century Mods (signed + print)
by Horst A. Friedrichs
Euro 108.90
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