{"product_id":"anastasia-samoylova-image-cities","title":"Anastasia Samoylova: Image Cities","description":"\u003cb\u003eReinventing the Image of the Global Metropolis\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eImage Cities\u003c\/i\u003e  takes us on a journey through cities the Globalization and World Cities Research Network ranks highest according to their degree of “global interconnectedness.” We find them in a process of transformation concealed behind dummy façades onto which a sense of heightened anticipation has been projected.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It would be tempting to read these photographs as a polemic against the triumph of consumerism and a slowly numbing global visual-economic order that wraps itself around whatever once felt local and civic. Samoylova’s photography is full of masterful refinements of the existing clichés of urban photography: Citizens dwarfed by giant images. Faces and bodies refracted through glass. The Pop-Cubism of visual bricolage. The minuscule human figures that stroll seemingly indifferent through city space while being at least partly somewhere else in their imaginations - their existence already a collage of places and times. Yet, Samoylova consciously engages with cliché, takes it apart and reassembles it, gambling that it can be taken to a level of pictorial sophistication that eludes any simple argument or statement. Instead, she invites us to reflect on photography’s role in the creation of a gap between these citie’s brand identity and their everyday reality.","brand":"Hatje Cantz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54224598630744,"sku":"9783775754804","price":62.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9783775754804.jpg?v=1782473695","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/anastasia-samoylova-image-cities","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}