
Publisher's description
Panoramic photographs of fantastical landscapes make a bizarre Baedeker to alternative realities in City of Salt, by Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick. The second volume, after Scotlandfuturebog, in an intended trilogy of such otherworldly guides juxtaposes those scenes with similarly inspired texts: Sufi tales, the writings of fabulist Italo Calvino, and parables by the artists themselves. The strange deserts, marshes, sandy shores, villages and fields are often traversed by wandering figures, frequently in peril or precariously alone. Kahn and Selesnick’s process combines sculptural and photographic media. The artists first construct the intricately detailed worlds in three-dimensional miniatures and dioramas, then digitally photograph the scene and populate it with characters in allegorical, though intriguingly puzzling, tableaux.
Specifications
Book title | City of Salt |
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Photographer | Nicholas Kahn Richard Selesnick |
ISBN 10 | 1931788774 / 1-931788-77-4 |
ISBN 13 | 9781931788779 / 978-1-931788-77-9 |
Publisher | Aperture |
Publish date | Sep 2005 |
Publish year | 2005 |
Book format | Hardcover |
Pages | 96 pages |
Number of photographs | 40 four-color images |
Color or b/w photographs | col |
Dimensions | 43,75 x 22,25 cm / 17.25 x 8.75 inches |
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