Published by Koenig Books. Edited with text by Emiliano Battista, Stefaan Vervoort. Text by Friedrich Achleitner, Hildegund Amanshauser, Emiliano Battista, Elke Couchez, et al.
Structured and designed like an encyclopedia, Austrian photographer Aglaia Konrad’s (born 1960) From A to K contains color and black-and-white photographs on the theme of urbanism, expressing Konrad’s fascination with inventories.
Published by JRP|Ringier. Edited by Christoph Keller, Johan Lagae. Text by Brigitte Franzen, Miles Glendinning.
Neither an architectural nor a documentary photographer, Aglaia Konrad focuses a direct gaze on cities like Cairo, Alexandria and Anwar el Sadat, capturing applications of “Modernist” principles in desert architecture. Her photographs spotlight an improbable dialogue between imported models and vernacular elements, constructions and sites, desert and communities, modernity and tradition.
Aglaia Konrad: Desert Cities