Deutsch
English
Background information
"The photo volume 'Mose. A Preliminary Report' by renowned American photographer Stephen SHORE on Venice's Mose first appears like a collation of materials documenting the phenomenon of acqua alta (flooding) and the construction of the mobile gates intended to protect the Venetian lagoon.
Content
This volume, 'Mose. A Preliminary Report' collects color photographs taken by Stephen SHORE in Venice in the summer of 2008. His photographs achieve a frankness that can be disarming, zero-downed observations purified as far as possible of any sort of cultural reference and pre-conception. Archive photographs, newspaper articles, historical maps, technical reports, engineering plans, and landscapes follow one after the other like dissimilar elements in an open investigation. Every page in this seemingly linear expositive structure continues to subtly yet insistently question us about the fragmentary nature of what we see and think." (© Linea di Confine / Koenig, 2011)
About the American photographer, Stephen SHORE (b. 1947, in New York City)
Photo books by Stephen SHORE
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Antonello Frongia
- Format
- Pb. with dust jacket, 24,5 x 19 x 1 cm., 80 pp., color ills., text language: English