Bangkok Sketches
Mauro D'Agati
Bangkok Sketches
Photographs: Mauro d'Agati
Text: Kateryna Filyuk
Publisher: 89BOOKS
108 pages
Pictures: 108
Year: 2023
Price: 35 €
Comments: Softcover with flaps, 28,6 x 20 cm, b&w photographs.
Since globetrotting became accessible to many and globalization reached almost every corner of the world, it has become harder and harder for urban centers to maintain their uniqueness. The same architectural and infrastructural solutions, shops, and restaurants render some places interchangeable, deprived of their special traits.
Some cities like D’Agati’s native Palermo, which has been a focus of his for decades, try to resist globalization, others – like Bangkok, where he feels almost at home, embrace it. The outcome of the latter is a multilayered, chaotic, hectic urban tissue, but one which somehow makes total sense and showcases a symbiosis of old and new, traditional and modern, seen and hidden. This symbiosis is at the center of the Bangkok Sketches series. Shot in 2017 during one of many long stays in Thailand’s capital, black and white snapshots of urban life find order and beauty in ordinary things – outdoor advertising, knots of cables, shadows on buildings, stains on the pavement. In a way, Bangkok Sketches might be considered an unusual twist in D’Agati’s photographic practice, as here he pays tribute to the city rather than to the people, who otherwise always constitute the core of his inquiry. However, these streets and buildings vibrate with life, they are loud and smelly, they are not a backdrop but a fully-fledged protagonist of the story. The story that one wants to penetrate, unravel, be part of. And when the night comes, D’Agati delves into another hidden world, of which there are many in Bangkok, the world of BDSM and fetish clubs (The Black Swamp project).
- Kateryna Filyuk
more books by Mauro D'Agati
-
D'Agati Vucciria (Signed)
by Mauro D'Agati
sold -
O.P.G. Criminal Asylum
by Mauro D'Agati
sold -
Girls are more evil than tigers (Signed)
by Mauro D'Agati
Euro 90 -
Tan (Signed)
by Mauro D'Agati
sold -
THE CHILDREN OF HUMBLE FREEDOM
by Mauro D'Agati
sold
more books tagged »89BOOKS « | >> see all
-
Alessandro
by Arturo Russo
sold -
You are now entering the human heart (QUADERNO PALERMO I)
by Callum Royle
Euro 45
more books tagged »city« | >> see all
-
Home Among Black Hills
by Jens Olof Lasthein
sold -
imageSingulières Sète #19 (Signed)
by Vanessa Winship
Euro 60 -
Land of the Setting Sun (Numbered and signed, edt of 100)
by Miyuki Okuyama
Euro 30 -
New York 1954-1955
by William Klein
sold -
TOKYO ON THE BRINK OF SANITY (SIGNED)
by Yoshio Mizoguchi
sold -
ONE (SIGNED)
by Eamonn Doyle
Euro 190
more books tagged »thailand« | >> see all
-
Our Sxe Dsir (Signed)
by Tiane Doan na Champassak
sold -
SIAM'S GUY (Signed copy)
by Tiane Doan na Champassak
sold -
Thai popular uprising October 1973
by Collective
sold -
Soi 1 (Signed)
by Kotaro Yokomizo
sold -
Soi 2
by Kotaro Yokomizo
sold -
TAMARIND GHOSTS (Signed)
by Tiane Doan na Champassak
sold
Books from the Virtual Bookshelf josefchladek.com