Photography in the style of documentary realism
A global alphabet of structures in architecture and art
Inventory of the landmarks of the world’s metropolises
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Roland Fischer - Façades
Roland Fischer’s “Façades” are spectacular photographic pictures: a visual grammar of architectural structures, an alphabet of abstract forms full of art-historical references. Roland Fischer (b. 1958), whose work is exhibited worldwide in important museums, lives and works in Munich and Beijing.
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Since the 1990s the artist has been photographing the exteriors of buildings, of banks, corporate headquarters and museums in the metropolises of the world, including Beijing, Tokyo, Shanghai, New York, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Osaka, Boston, Brasilia, Los Angeles, Paris, São Paulo, Singapore, Dallas, Madrid, Washington, Mexico City, Chicago, Toronto, Chongqing and Montreal. The results of this breathtaking project form an unusual series of some 100 façades: a vocabulary of global architecture, an inventory of city landmarks. The structures and colours of the contemporary metropolitan universe are transformed into pictures that resemble abstract paintings.
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Sein Bildband "Façades" - "Fassaden" -, für den Fischer rund hundert Aufnahmen ausgewählt hat, nimmt den Betrachter mit auf eine faszinierende weltumspannende Reise zu urbanen Oberflächen.
Spiegel Online
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Essays by Sheryl Conkelton, Petra Giloy-Hirtz and Lyle Rexer
Translation: Katrin Boskamp-Priever and Bram Opstelten
English-German edition
224 pages, 101 colour illustrations
25 x 31,5 cm, softcover with flaps
Translation: Katrin Boskamp-Priever and Bram Opstelten
English-German edition
224 pages, 101 colour illustrations
25 x 31,5 cm, softcover with flaps
ISBN: 978-3-7774-2559-7
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