*The Overcoat* is a collection of 17 photographic works originally commissioned by artists for a reissue of Nikolai Gogol’s classic novel, published by Four Corners Books. The darkly humorous short story (1842) tells the story of a humble, impoverished civil servant whose life is briefly transformed by a new overcoat. For this new publication of the story, Sarah Dobai has produced a body of new photographic works depicting shop windows in London and Paris. The photographs, like the text, reflect the confusion between surface appearance and reality, a theme present both in the story set in 19th-century Saint Petersburg and in the streets of London and Paris in the 21st century.
Published by Four Corners Books
29 cm 21.5 cm, 88 pages, in good condition
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*The Overcoat* is a collection of 17 photographic works originally commissioned by artists for a reissue of Nikolai Gogol’s classic novel, published by Four Corners Books. The darkly humorous short story (1842) tells the story of a humble, impoverished civil servant whose life is briefly transformed by a new overcoat. For this new publication of the story, Sarah Dobai has produced a body of new photographic works depicting shop windows in London and Paris. The photographs, like the text, reflect the confusion between surface appearance and reality, a theme present both in the story set in 19th-century Saint Petersburg and in the streets of London and Paris in the 21st century.
Published by Four Corners Books
29 cm 21.5 cm, 88 pages, in good condition
ISBN
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