Landscape as Longing: Queens, New York

Frank Gohlke , Joel Sternfeld
9783958290327 / 3958290329       
Landscape as Longing: Queens, New York

Landscape as Longing: Queens, New York

Frank Gohlke , Joel Sternfeld
9783958290327 / 3958290329       
Publisher Steidl 2016
Edition Hardcover , 156 pages
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In 2003, Frank Gohlke and Joel Sternfeld were commissioned to photograph one of the densest concentrations of ethnic diversity in the world, the borough of Queens in New York City. After more than a year of photographing everything from corner bodegas to the borough’s boundaries, Gohlke and Sternfeld had not only captured the complicated dynamic that sustains Queens and its myriad communities; they had also evolved a unique theory of landscape photography in which landscape is a visible manifestation of the invisible emotions of its inhabitants.
The collection inherits the strength of each photographer’s eye. Gohlke’s Queens consists of streets, houses, fences, gardens, parklands, shorelines, and waste spaces, the territory where human arrangement contends endlessly with the forces that undo it: unruly vegetation, weather, rot, decay, and the “creative destruction” of a voracious commercial culture. Sternfeld focuses on the indigenous shops, restaurants, mosques and temples that make a walk in Queens feel like a walk in Thailand, India or Peru—or all of them at once. Often tucked into homes or converted factories, these places signify a home country, or perhaps a home country that exists more in the mind than in actuality.
In conjunction with an essay by the acclaimed writer Suketu Mehta, this book is a powerful instrument for understanding a landscape that seems to defy interpretation. Gohlke and Sternfeld successfully make the dizzying patchwork of Queens accessible and visible.
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Text by Suketu Mehta
Publisher: Steidl
Size: 320 x 280 mm
156 pages

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Book title Landscape as Longing: Queens, New York
Photographer Frank Gohlke Joel Sternfeld
ISBN 10 3958290329        / 3-95829-032-9       
ISBN 13 9783958290327 / 978-3-95829-032-7
Publisher Steidl
Publish date Apr 2017
Publish year 2016
Book format Hardcover
Book format details clothbound
Language English
Pages 156 pages
Dimensions 32 x 28 cm / 11 x 12.5 inches

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