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Peter Fischli & David Weiss: 800 Views of Airports
Peter Fischli & David Weiss: 800 Views of Airports
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN

Hbk, 7.75 x 11 in. / 408 pgs / 800 color. | 9/30/2012 | Not available
$65.00



Peter Fischli & David Weiss: 800 Views of AirportsPeter Fischli & David Weiss: 800 Views of Airports

Published by Walther König, Köln.

800 Views of Airports documents a lengthy series of work by Peter Fischli (born 1952) and David Weiss (1946-2012), comprising 1,010 photographs to date, all of which appear here complete for the first time. For this ongoing documentary project, the artistic duo photograph the airports they passed through in their travels around the world over nearly 25 years, in a quest for exotic banality throughout different cultures. Their images of these nondescript airports focus on the humdrum aspect of air travel: the fuel vehicles, the baggage trucks, the daily routines of airport workers, the long antiseptic corridors and sprawling tarmacs surrounded by panoramic views of empty vistas. Whether presenting a Lufthansa airplane sitting idle in a yellowy light, a Swiss Air plane waiting in a neon-haunted dusk or an Air France plane getting its belly filled in the dead of night, Fischli and Weiss’s images present the evanescence of any national identity when reduced to a symbol on a vertical stabilizer. 800 Views of Airports reveal the non-places encircling our world, and the non-journeys that have come to define our contemporary life in transit, while simultaneously offering carefully composed images that are strangely placid and restful.

PUBLISHER
Walther König, Köln

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 7.75 x 11 in. / 408 pgs / 800 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2012 p. 96   

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ISBN 9783865609328 TRADE
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