Olivo Barbieri: Site Specific Book

HardCover. Pub Date :2013-09-30 Pages: 184 Language: English Publisher: Thames Hudson Site Specific is a summary of Olivo Barbieris ten-year project to record the worlds cities in aerial photographs On the one hand. the book offers remarkable. documentation. by a thrilling image-maker. of twenty-five cities throughout the world. On the other. it is a narrative of Barbieris evolving approach to photography and his thoughts about the nature of the medium. Presented chronologically. the photographs begin with the distinct tilt-shift photographs of Italian cities with which Barbieri first established his reputationand that launched a popular stylistic movement for selective-focus photographs. During the series. he later introduced other devices and approaches to distort perceived realitysuch as playing with color. registration. and the deletion or discoloring of particular detai...Read More