Takahashi Homma: The Narcissistic City

Mack Books, 2016

55,00

Takashi Homma uses fragments collected in camera obscura constructed in metropolitan areas of Japan and the US to build a city image by image. Homma does not seek to index any particular city but to render a shadow world, a city’s unconscious caught in a dark chamber, suspended in the camera’s box. The camera obscura offers a repetition, like the reflection shimmering in Narcissus’s pool. The ‘Narcissistic city’ is a city transfixed upon its own image – a mirror city, laced with repetition (modular) and reflections (glass). A city looking at its reflection, a city caught in a dark chamber, a city observing its camera obscura inversion – flickering inside the camera’s box.

Artikelnummer: 13328 Categorie:

ISBN: 9781910164600

112 pagina's, 62 afbeeldingen kleur, 24 × 31.5 cm, paperback, Engels