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Photographic research of 20 major cities and megacities of the 21st century-a picture essay on the urban world that is home to more than half of the global population
Since 2009, historian and photographer Philipp Sarasin has been traveling the globe for his visual research on major cities and megacities. He visited Los Angeles, London, Berlin, Cairo, Nairobi, Dubai, Mumbai, Beijing, Jakarta, Panama City, and ten other places, driven by his search for a relevant photographic image of the world in which we live. It is an urban world for more than half of humanity-and the trend is going up.
The Big City features some 120 of Sarasin's color photographs that are marked by his analytical observing eye. His focus is on urban space with all its images and signs, embedded in the faceless architecture that shapes 21st-century cities. Sarasin's shots are neither architectural photography in the narrow sense nor classic street photography. He follows the tradition of urban photography, inspired in particular by the concepts of artists such as Stephen Shore, Thomas Struth, and Jeff Wall.
An essay by architectural historian and curator Martino Stierli and an introduction by Philipp Sarasin supplement the full-page color plates in this striking volume.
Philipp Sarasin ist Historiker und Fotograf. 2000-2022 lehrte er als Professor für Neuere Geschichte an der Universität Zürich und publizierte unter anderem Michel Foucault zur Einführung (Junius, 8. Aufl. 2023) und 1977. Eine kurze Geschichte der Gegenwart (Suhrkamp, 2021).
Martino Stierli ist Architekturhistoriker und The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design am MoMA in New York. Er ist Autor und Herausgeber zahlreicher Bücher, darunter Las Vegas Studio (Scheidegger & Spiess, 2008 / 2015) und Before Publication (Park Books, 2016).
