David Stephenson's stunning large format photographs of cities at night across America, Australia and Asia reveal globalized urban sprawl, energy use, and light pollution. These glowing "light cities" suggest much that is both good and bad in our industrialized society: extraordinary examples of a monumental technological sublime, where awe, beauty, and human aspiration are tinged with the shadow of looming environmental catastrophe, our engine of modernity seemingly running on empty. The accompanying essay by photographic historian Keith F. Davis discusses the evolving idea of the city as a key theme in photography, and what it has symbolized, from the modernist city as an engineering feat, to the after-modernist city as a focus of energy and information.
| ISBN: | 9783775756785 |
| Publication date: | 20th June 2024 |
| Author: | David Stephenson |
| Publisher: | Hatje Cantz an imprint of Hatje Cantz Verlag |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 96 pages |
| Genres: |
Individual artists, art monographs |
David Stephenson's stunning large format photographs of cities at night across America, Australia and Asia reveal globalized urban sprawl, energy use, and light pollution. These glowing "light cities" suggest much that is both good and bad in our industrialized society: extraordinary examples of a monumental technological sublime, where awe, beauty, and human aspiration are tinged with the shadow of looming environmental catastrophe, our engine of modernity seemingly running on empty. The accompanying essay by photographic historian Keith F. Davis discusses the evolving idea of the city as a key theme in photography, and what it has symbolized, from the modernist city as an engineering feat, to the after-modernist city as a focus of energy and information.
David Stephenson features in the following genres: Individual artists, art monographs
David Stephenson is available in Hardback
David Stephenson was written by David Stephenson and published by Hatje Cantz an imprint of Hatje Cantz Verlag
David Stephenson has 96 pages
£39.60