Publisher's Description
Endcommercial / Reading the City
Edited by Scheppe Bohm Associates. Photography by Florian Bohm, Lucca
Pizzaroni and Wolfgang Scheppe.
Between urban structures and individual existence, organic and improvised
systems emerge. Situated beyond the sophisticated economy and below a
level of recognition, they are familiar yet paradoxically invisible.The ordinariness of certain objects is so ubiquitous that they fail to evoke reflection: construction barriers, ads on buses, traffic signs, LCD displays, chained-up bicycles,
the facades of stores, subway maps. Endcommerical l Reading the City conducts a visual research project of urban street territory, compiling signs,
objects, and codes within grammatical relationships that unveil embedded
social conditions and contradictions. Taking NewYork as a paradigmatic urban
alphabet, Endcommercial l Reading the City orders a seemingly endless array of
informal and empirical photographs, demonstrating the distinction between
an unconscious visualization of singularities and an intelligent perception of
generality. Initiated by the commercial, subject to fictionalization, it is a reference tool engaged in the thoughtful renewal of our visual vocabulary, opposed to the omnipresent iconography we process everyday.
Book Information
ISBN:
3775712216
Publisher:
Hatje Cantz Publishers
Format:
Hardcover, 544 pages
Language:
English