PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 11.75 x 10 in. / 128 pgs / 55 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 8/25/2015
Active

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2015 p. 188

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9783775739696 FLAT40
List Price: $55.00 CDN $72.50

AVAILABILITY
In stock

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Stefano Cerio: Chinese Fun

Text by Nadine Barth, Walter Guadagnini.

In this publication, Italian photographer Stefano Cerio (born 1962) documents off-season amusement parks, beaches and sports grounds in Beijing, Shanghai, Qingdao and Hong Kong. His centrally organized, often absurd compositions expose the bleakness and senselessness behind the amusing facades.

PRAISE AND REVIEWS

Hyperallergic

Allison Meier

[S]ites that are joyous frenzies by day become uncanny in the darkness. A frontier schooner looks to be levitating from its ferris wheel, while the head of King Kong trapped in a lonely cage at the center of some whirling ride is more melancholy than menacing in the low light. In each scene, the emptiness and seemingly limitless black background heighten the surreal settings.

CNN

Harriet Verney

Artificial worlds: Eerie images capture recreational places at the dead of night...