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Lädt ... Bicycles Locked to Polesvon John Glassie
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Nice. Fine, really, but it gains no special elegance or artfulness by being slim. The photos are not remarkable or even plainly documentary enough to warrant long inspection, so the book breezes by. It needed more engaging photos that read like monuments, or art, or clues, or abstract patterns. Barring that, the book needs sheer volume so that a story or at least some kind of impact accumulates. Alas, the majority of the book instead seems to be motivated by novelty without sufficient humor or earnestness to justify it. The best feature is the elegant, somewhat obsessive, cross-referenced, matrix of contents cataloging each bike by what parts are missing or damaged and the intensity of that damage. It may not be worth the price of admission, but its well worth seeing and could be adapted to all sorts of three dimensional data cataloging. ( ) Without much explanatory text, the photos of increasingly abused bicycles speak for themselves. After the wheels and seats were gone I no longer thought of them as bicycles, and no longer felt sorry for them as rejected companions. Instead they became interesting urban texture, like bricked over windows, or marks on the pavement, just a clue to some previous use and the passing of time. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
This mournful but pleasing collection features many of the best photographs of bicycles locked to poles ever taken. Shot using an old-fashioned 35mm Nikon, and in many cases after waiting days for alternate-side-of-the-street parking regulations to take effect, the photos here follow in the tradition of John James Audubon, Bernd and Hilla Becher, the Peterson Field Guides, and The Observer's Book of Steam Locomotives. Bicycles Locked to Poles began in early 2001, when a magenta arrow - spray painted on the sidewalk by a representative of the electrical utility - pointed directly to the sadly bent, Dali-esque wheel of a bicycle on the photographer's street. Glassie passed by every day for months, until one day it was gone. He has been documenting bicycles locked to poles, bent, broken and otherwise, in and around his East Village neighborhood of New York ever since. This volume presents a careful selection from Glassie's collection of over a thousand color photographs, as well as a graphical guide to present, damaged and missing bicycle parts, and a quote from Marvin Minsky's The Society of Mind. Bicycles Locked to Poles is a rare treasury for anyone interested in bikes, poles, locks, or the forgotten artifacts of the urban landscape. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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