Nicholas Sinclair: Five Cities - Hardcover

Nicholas Sinclair; Nicky Hamlyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1905711573 ISBN 13: 9781905711574

Publisher: Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2010

Synopsis

These images represent five European cities – Paris, Istanbul, Palermo, Berlin and Budapest – through their surface markings. Exploring the interaction between a city and its citizens as recorded by graffiti and advertising, Sinclair’s photographs occupy a place between documentary and abstraction – a scrawled word or the scrap of a fly-poster are at once physical scars on a wall and marks hovering graphically on the picture plane. In this beautifully produced book, the second in a trilogy by Sinclair examining the surfaces of European cities, we are invited to look at graffiti and other ‘unofficial’ interventions anew: not as aggressive intrusions, but rather as part of an ongoing collaborative project to interpret the modern city.

About this title

About the Author:

Nicholas Sinclair is an internationally renowned photographer. His work has been widely exhibited and published. He was made a Hasselblad Master in 2003, and his work is in many major public collections. His books include Berlin: Imagining the Trichord. Nicky Hamlyn is a highly acclaimed filmmaker and the author of Film Art Phenomena.

About this edition

• Publisher: Royal Academy of Arts, London
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1905711573
• ISBN 13: 9781905711574
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 72