Sachgebiete

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[ca.760] S. Broschiert.

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Einband leicht berieben. Text span. und engl. - One aspect of any city are the faces of its inhabitants. It has even been said that one cannot get to know the city without them - which is not true. Without the faces, the city is more real; it reveals its identity, as in pittura metafisica, where people disappear from the scene, leaving it to monuments, colonnades, railway stations and the sound of footsteps on the pavement. The faces spice up the dish, i.e. the identity of the urban communities. What I remember from my trips to Madrid, Prague, Vienna and Turin is a great mosaic of faces. Faces pouring inro shops, hovering over plates in restaurants, half asleep in the underground, trains, or trams, passing me by in the streets, fragments of faces speeding by in cars. The photographic albums of Alexander Honory - documenting his visits to cities all over the world - present faces which seem both closer and more distant than they would be in reality. Closer, since they are vulnerable to our gaze and our thoughts, supplying them with the narrarives provided by our own experience. The portraits cannot object or turn away, hide behind facial expressions or foreign-sounding language. More distant, since these people come from far away. Their features do not evoke familiar associations with your aunt Sophia. Looking at the photographs taken in the cities of South America or Europe, one has the impression of a curious undulation of the faces: they come towards the viewer, then float away. ISBN 3932189663