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The Book of Images An illustrated dictionary of visual experiences From A to Z

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The Book of Images presents an illustrated dictionary of visual experiences from A to Z, inviting readers to explore photography beyond passive viewing. With vivid examples ranging from images on buildings and underwater to projections and large-scale installations, it celebrates photography in its most dynamic forms. The book encourages learning to see differently through inspiring stories of renowned artists like Francis Alys, Liu Bolin, Cristina De Middel, Martin Parr, Cindy Sherman, and many others, revealing how photography can be touched, smelled, played with, and fully immersed in.
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This richly visual and conceptually deep book is ideal for photography enthusiasts, artists, students of the visual arts, and anyone interested in contemporary culture and innovative ways of experiencing images.

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The Book of Images comes as a true storm, full of ideas on how to think differently about photography and context. How they can blend with each other, enhance each other or clash with each other, creating an adventure that goes far beyond basic, passive viewing.

Images on buildings, under water, up in the sky, printed, projected, still, moving, tiny or extremely large. You can touch them, smell them, play with them and immerse in them. This is a celebration of photography in its greatest form. Learn how to look differently and see more, and get inspired by this book on how to SHOW photography.

Discover how to: reel and unreel with Francis Alys; go to jail with John Baldessari; play hide-and-seek with Liu Bolin; fight for your copyrights with Renรฉ Burri; fly a drone with Tadao Cern; investigate crimes with Mat Collishaw; travel to the moon with Cristina De Middel; learn to count with Hans Eijkelboom; count numbers with Hans Peter Feldman; go for a road trip with Lee Friedlander; ride a funeral train with Paul Fusco; play with shadows with Shilpa Gupta; take an inside-out selfie with JR; upload pictures with Erik Kessels; inflate a whale with Daido Moriyama; listen to street music with Christian Marclay; scuba dive with Guido Mocafico; stand on your head with Arnold Odermatt; shoot crazy music videos with Ok Go; enter a picture with Martin Parr; open a drugstore with Christian Patterson; get lost in a crowd with Alex Prager; choose a gun with Andres Serrano; be supersized with Cindy Sherman; shoot a target with Roman Signer; sleep with Alec Soth; drill images with Vhils; build a house with Erwin Wurm...

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783960986492

Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 31 January 2023

Country: Germany

Imprint: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig

Contributors:

  • Edited by Stefano Stoll
  • Text by Erik Kessels

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 220.0mm

Height: 320.0mm

Weight: 1660g

Pages: 400

About the Author

Stefano Stoll is Director of the IMAGES Festival in Vevey, Switzerland. Erik Kessels is Creative Director of the advertising agency KesselsKramer in Amsterdam, where he lives.

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