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
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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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
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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Poem as an Object # 2 (signed)
by Wypke Jannette Walen
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sold out -
Roxane II (signed - last copies)
by Viviane Sassen
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In and Out of Fashion
by Viviane Sassen
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The Stories of Mandy and Eva
by Willeke Duijvekam
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by Andreas Trogisch
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Hong Kong Rubber Boots and Shoes (last copies)
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The Present (last copy)
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Wolfsburg Diary
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DEEPER SHADES #02 TOKYO (book + print)
by Andreas H. Bitesnich
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by Thomas Hoepker
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Dark Knees
by Mark Cohen
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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
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
-
Poem as an Object # 2 (signed)
by Wypke Jannette Walen
Euro 17.50 -
Let's sit down before we go (last copy)
by Bertien van Manen
Euro 320 -
Portraits
by Rineke Dijkstra
sold out -
Roxane II (signed - last copies)
by Viviane Sassen
sold out -
In and Out of Fashion
by Viviane Sassen
sold out -
The Stories of Mandy and Eva
by Willeke Duijvekam
Euro 34
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VINETA 1985/1990 (last copy)
by Andreas Trogisch
Euro 38.50 -
Hong Kong Rubber Boots and Shoes (last copies)
by Michael Wolf
Euro 75 -
The Present (last copy)
by Paul Graham
sold out -
Wolfsburg Diary
by Peter Bialobrzeski
sold out -
END. (signed - last copy)
by Eamonn Doyle
sold out -
DEEPER SHADES #02 TOKYO (book + print)
by Andreas H. Bitesnich
Euro 470
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OR GLORY: 21st Century Rockers (signed + print)
by Horst A. Friedrichs
Euro 108.90 -
Lisboa, Cidade Triste e Alegre
by Costa Martins & Victor Palla
sold out -
Heartland (signed - last copy)
by Thomas Hoepker
sold out -
Dark Knees
by Mark Cohen
sold out -
Le bucarestois (signed)
by Emilie Gafner
Euro 25 -
Nothing's in Vain
by Emmanuelle Andrianjafy
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