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Background information
"The 'Bangkok' series by Andreas GURSKY forms the basis of this book. His photos depict the dark, moving water of Thailand’s Chao Phraya river, whose shimmering surface possesses the qualities of abstract painting. Indeed these photos are reminiscent of some of the most recognisable examples of Modernist Abstraction such as the work of Hans Arp but they also echo the more hostile patterns of military camouflage. Seductively beautiful on the first glance, it is only in time that the rubbish of civilisation becomes recognisable floating on the surface of the river – the flotsam of a threatening reality moving upon colourful reflections.
Content
In this photo volume, 'Bangkok' German photographer Andreas GURSKY, he alludes to the ecological problems that jeopardize Bangkok, and which shortly after these images were made, culminated in the widespread flooding that devastated great parts of Thailand." (© Steidl Verlag, 2012)
About the German photographer, Andreas GURSKY (b. 1955, in Leipzig)
Photo books by and on the work of Andreas GURSKY
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Hans Irrek
- Format
- English ed.! HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 29 x 1,5 cm., 112 pp., color ills., text language. English