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Peter Bialobrzeski’s (b. 1961) photographs do not seem to reflect the real world, but rather dreamscapes drawn from films or computer games. Looking at the photos in *Tigri di Luce*, one imagines they were taken by a man floating weightlessly between skyscrapers. 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, using the simplest equipment one can imagine: an old-fashioned plate camera.
“The urban centers in Peter Bialobrzeski’s images merge into a single fictional city that is more real than reality itself, for cities are no longer singular places but nodes in the information network. The megacities of Southeast Asia thus 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 and glamorous face on globalization and the invisible, powerful network that shapes our environment and virtually directs our lives.” (© Vicki Goldberg, New York Times).
Published by Constrasto Books, 2004, signed copy (texts in Italian and English)
29.5 cm 24 cm, 112 pages, 50 color photographs
ISBN
Peter Bialobrzeski’s (b. 1961) photographs do not seem to reflect the real world, but rather dreamscapes drawn from films or computer games. Looking at the photos in *Tigri di Luce*, one imagines they were taken by a man floating weightlessly between skyscrapers. 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, using the simplest equipment one can imagine: an old-fashioned plate camera.
“The urban centers in Peter Bialobrzeski’s images merge into a single fictional city that is more real than reality itself, for cities are no longer singular places but nodes in the information network. The megacities of Southeast Asia thus 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 and glamorous face on globalization and the invisible, powerful network that shapes our environment and virtually directs our lives.” (© Vicki Goldberg, New York Times).
Published by Constrasto Books, 2004, signed copy (texts in Italian and English)
29.5 cm 24 cm, 112 pages, 50 color photographs
ISBN
