Publisher's Description
The skyline, the shrines, the reflections in skyscraper
windows, the garages, mailboxes, metal
grates, padlocks, doors, high-tension wires, trees,
stumps, dogs, dog walkers, dog shit, swastikas,
anti-Bush posters, religious icons, storefronts,
street art, packaged meats, street signs, license
plates, cars, surveillance cameras, manhole covers,
playgrounds, abandoned chairs. . . all of the
vivid, day-to-day signs of life in Buenos Aires,
Argentina, are captured in this chunky and
affordable 240-page compendium in amazing
grids of like objects—typologies that read with
delightful immediacy. The pictures were taken
by two Swiss photographers, Daniel Spehr and
Kathrin Schulthess, and Guido Indij, a Porteño,
or Buenos Aires local, as they walked the vast
perimeter of Argentina’s legendary “village” of
more than 11,000,000 inhabitants. Together, they
read like a breathing archive, a super-memory, a
culture with an unmistakably powerful flavor.