Dutch conceptual artist Hans Eijkelboom's work is very much in line with the deadpan, seemingly mechanistic note-taking of Ed Ruscha and Hans-Peter Feldman. In "Paris-New York-Shanghai," Eijkelboom creates a witty comparative study of three major contemporary metropolises, each selected for having been the cultural capital of its time--Paris during the nineteenth century; New York, the twentieth; and Shanghai, the twenty-first.
This uniquely bound three-volume accordion-folded set opens up to allow the reader not only to view each city individually, but also to compare simultaneously the three photographic studies of each metropolis and its citizens. The large-format cityscapes with the identifying quirks of each city and the snapshot-style grids of their inhabitants soon reveal how similar one city is to another today. For example, Eijkelboom's grids of mothers carrying their infants in Baby Bjorns, or men wearing striped polo shirts highlight the ubiquity of many of our most intimate possessions. As Eijkelboom writes, "Globalization, combined with the desire of cities for visually spectacular elements, is leading to the appearance everywhere of city centers that look the same and where identical products are sold." With an introduction by Martin Parr.

Author: Hans Eijkelboom
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Aperture
Published: 11/01/2007
Pages: 240
Weight: 3.85lbs
Size: 8.40h x 10.50w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781597110440


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 12/15/2007 pg. 109

About the Author
Parr, Martin: - "Agatha Christie (1890-1976) est la reine incontestee et inegMartin Parr est ne a Epsom en 1952. Son approche originale dalee du roman policier classique. Nee a Torquay, son premiere la photographie documentaire lui vaut rapidement une renom roman "La Mysterieuse Affaire de Styles" est publie en 1920mee internationale. Il a recu en 2008 la medaille du centena et voit la naissance d un ecrivain et d un personnage: Hercire de la "Royal Photographic Society" et s est fait connaitule Poirot. Tres vite, sa renommee est mondiale. Elle est a re du public francais grace a la retrospective - Planete Parla tete d une prodigieuse production litteraire et reste aujr - au Musee du Jeu de Paume a Paris en 2009 eta l'expositioourd hui l un des auteurs les plus lus a travers le monde, tn- The Goutte d Or - a Barbes en 2011. outes generations confondues."Godfrey, Tony: - Godfrey is Senior Lecturer in postwar art at Sotheby's Institute, London.Eijkelboom, Hans: - Hans Eijkelboom was included in a 1971 group show with Joseph Beuys, Ed Ruscha, and Douglas Huebler. Since then, he has produced over twenty-five books, many of them self-published. His work has been exhibited in solo shows at the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam; Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem, the Netherlands; Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, the Netherlands; Provincial Museum of Photography, Antwerp, Belgium; and Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus, Germany. Eijkelboom is based in Amsterdam.