CIPHERS

Photographer Christoph Gielen's views of urban development offer a look at America's most aberrant and unusual sprawl forms in ways we usually don't get to see them-from far above the ground. This book turns sprawl into an aesthetic experience at the intersection of art and environmental politics, questioning the ramifications of contemporary building trends. The pictures invoke an era of carefree risk-taking, of bigger is better, when investing in home-ownership and commercial real estate were still standard practices and neither dis...[Llegir més]