TIGRI DI LUCE - Peter Bialobrzeski
The photographs by Peter Bialobrzeski (1961-) don't seem to reflect a real world, but rather dream worlds from films or PC games. Looking at Tigri di Luce's photos, one imagines they were taken by a man floating between one skyscraper and the next, in the absence of gravity. The reality, however, is quite different: this book is a journey halfway between the imaginary and the real, between a dreamlike world and hypermodern Asian metropolises, with the simplest equipment imaginable: an old-fashioned plate camera.
"The urban centers of Peter Bialovrzeski's images merge into a single fictitious city that is more real than reality, because cities are no longer singular places but nodes in the information network The megacities of Southeast Asia then exist in these images as a fantasy that makes no distinction between Shanghai, Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur. Peter Bialobrzeski's photographs put a radiant, glamorous face on globalization and the invisible, powerful network that shapes our environment and virtually runs our lives." (© Vicki Goldberg, New York Times).
Published by Constrasto Books, 2004, signed book (texts in Italian and English)
29.5 cm x 24 cm, 112 pages, 50 color photographs
ISBN 9788889032282
The photographs by Peter Bialobrzeski (1961-) don't seem to reflect a real world, but rather dream worlds from films or PC games. Looking at Tigri di Luce's photos, one imagines they were taken by a man floating between one skyscraper and the next, in the absence of gravity. The reality, however, is quite different: this book is a journey halfway between the imaginary and the real, between a dreamlike world and hypermodern Asian metropolises, with the simplest equipment imaginable: an old-fashioned plate camera.
"The urban centers of Peter Bialovrzeski's images merge into a single fictitious city that is more real than reality, because cities are no longer singular places but nodes in the information network The megacities of Southeast Asia then exist in these images as a fantasy that makes no distinction between Shanghai, Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur. Peter Bialobrzeski's photographs put a radiant, glamorous face on globalization and the invisible, powerful network that shapes our environment and virtually runs our lives." (© Vicki Goldberg, New York Times).
Published by Constrasto Books, 2004, signed book (texts in Italian and English)
29.5 cm x 24 cm, 112 pages, 50 color photographs
ISBN 9788889032282
The photographs by Peter Bialobrzeski (1961-) don't seem to reflect a real world, but rather dream worlds from films or PC games. Looking at Tigri di Luce's photos, one imagines they were taken by a man floating between one skyscraper and the next, in the absence of gravity. The reality, however, is quite different: this book is a journey halfway between the imaginary and the real, between a dreamlike world and hypermodern Asian metropolises, with the simplest equipment imaginable: an old-fashioned plate camera.
"The urban centers of Peter Bialovrzeski's images merge into a single fictitious city that is more real than reality, because cities are no longer singular places but nodes in the information network The megacities of Southeast Asia then exist in these images as a fantasy that makes no distinction between Shanghai, Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur. Peter Bialobrzeski's photographs put a radiant, glamorous face on globalization and the invisible, powerful network that shapes our environment and virtually runs our lives." (© Vicki Goldberg, New York Times).
Published by Constrasto Books, 2004, signed book (texts in Italian and English)
29.5 cm x 24 cm, 112 pages, 50 color photographs
ISBN 9788889032282
