Peter Friedl: Playgrounds Tapa dura - 2007

Gottingen: Steidl, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Essay by Jean-Francois Chevrier translated by Alan Waite. A collection of color photograph of children's playgrounds that has in some wasys a similiar typological feel as some of the Becher's images. A fine copy in fine dust jacket.

Gottingen: Steidl, , 2008. Rilegato tela, sovracoperta (cloth, dust jacket). Perfetto (Mint). Testo di Jean-François Chevrier. Fotografie a colori di Peter Friedl. 8vo (cm 26,5x21,5). pp. 256. Perfetto (Mint). Prima edizione (First Edition). Since 1995 Peter Friedl has been photographing public playgrounds from around the world and compiling them alphabetically by reference to the names of the places. Friedl's conceptual photography project engages at a discursive level with themes of socio-history, design, and urbanism. It makes no claim to being a comprehensive typology but is instead a narrative study in which the photographed playgrounds are as important as those not shown in his photographs. This is a story of the world told through the prism of its playgrounds. Dal 1995 Peter Friedl fotografa parchi giochi pubblici di tutto il mondo e li riunisce in ordine alfabetico in base ai nomi dei luoghi. Il progetto fotografico concettuale di Friedl si impegna a livello discorsivo con temi di… Leer más

The book approaches the condition of As New, but without being crisp. The book has been opened and read, but there are no defects to the book, jacket or pages. ///Over the last dozen years, Peter Friedl has been photographing play yards around the world and comA Fine book approaches the condition of As New, but without being crisp. The book may have been opened and read, but there are no defects to the book, jacket or pages. piling the images alphabetically by place name. Playgrounds is less a comprehensive typology than a narrative study in which the few places shown--at once as specific as their chipped paint and representative of all those that cannot be included--describe the world through the space it allots to children. Roger M. Buergel writes that "Peter Friedl adopts a comparative approach, reminiscent of the anthropological projects of the first half of the twentieth century the quest for meaning at the intersection of repetition (image on image) and differentiation (the differences between… Leer más