The Overcoat is a group of 17 photographic works originally commissioned for an artists' re-edition of Nikolai Gogol's classic novel published by Four Corners Books. The darkly humorous short (1842) tells the story of a humble, impoverished civil servant whose existence is briefly transformed by a new coat. For this new publication of the story Sarah Dobai has produced a body of new photographic work that photographs commercial shop windows in London and Paris. Both the photographs and the text reflect the confusion of surface appearance with reality that figures both in the history of 19th-century St. Petersburg and on the streets of 21st-century London and Paris.
Published by Four Corners Books
29 cm × 21.5 cm, 88 pages, good condition
ISBN 9781909829039
The Overcoat is a group of 17 photographic works originally commissioned for an artists' re-edition of Nikolai Gogol's classic novel published by Four Corners Books. The darkly humorous short (1842) tells the story of a humble, impoverished civil servant whose existence is briefly transformed by a new coat. For this new publication of the story Sarah Dobai has produced a body of new photographic work that photographs commercial shop windows in London and Paris. Both the photographs and the text reflect the confusion of surface appearance with reality that figures both in the history of 19th-century St. Petersburg and on the streets of 21st-century London and Paris.
Published by Four Corners Books
29 cm × 21.5 cm, 88 pages, good condition
ISBN 9781909829039
